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Manish Giri
16,266 PointsNeed of Composer/Autoloading etc?
I'm in the autoloading part of the "dependency management" tutorial, and so far, I didn't really understand what is the need of doing all these things - composer, autoloading, Monolog etc? I mean what exactly is the use of this in our tutorial? Our php files barely have even 20-30 lines of code.
These features might be handy for larger sized projects, but do we need it in this tutorial? if so, what for?
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Tom Checkley
25,165 PointsI'm at about the same stage. Looking through further headings for this project it looks like we'll be using a 3rd party bit of code for the contact form. If my knowledge of gulp and grunt crossover to php, we'll need the dependency manager to control these 3rd party codes. Hope this helps
Tom Checkley
25,165 PointsWhat I mean is I think Composer and autoloader are similarish to grunt or gulp
Aamnah Akram
17,549 PointsAamnah Akram
17,549 PointsI'm kind of confused about the same thing.. The project is building a basic website, but then comes Monolog and i go say whhaaatt?. It's anything but basic, because you need to have some idea of OOP and such. I think it'd have helped if the instructor mentioned why we are using monolog or where it would be required in the project.