Autoloading

Loading files based on the PSR-0 specification using Composer

webman follows the PSR-4 autoloading specification. If your project needs to load libraries based on the PSR-0 specification, follow these steps:

Create a extend directory to store the libraries that follow the PSR-0 specification.
Edit the composer.json file and add the following code under autoload:

"psr-0" : {
    "": "extend/"
}

The final result should look like this:

Run composer dumpautoload.
Restart webman by running php start.php restart (Note: you must restart for the changes to take effect).

Loading specific files using Composer

Edit the composer.json file and add the files you want to load under autoload.files:
```
"files": [
"./support/helpers.php",
"./app/helpers.php"
]
```
Run composer dumpautoload.
Restart webman by running php start.php restart (Note: you must restart for the changes to take effect).

Note
Files specified in the autoload.files configuration in composer.json will be loaded before webman starts. On the other hand, files loaded using the config/autoload.php provided by the framework are loaded after webman starts.
Changes made to the files specified in autoload.files in composer.json will require a restart to take effect. Reloading will not work. However, files loaded using the config/autoload.php provided by the framework support hot reloading, and changes will take effect upon reloading.

Loading specific files using the framework

Sometimes, certain files may not conform to the PSR specification and thus cannot be loaded automatically. In such cases, we can use the config/autoload.php file to load these files. For example:

return [
    'files' => [
        base_path() . '/app/functions.php',
        base_path() . '/support/Request.php', 
        base_path() . '/support/Response.php',
    ]
];

Note
In the autoload.php file, we see that support/Request.php and support/Response.php are loaded. This is because there are also two files with the same names in vendor/workerman/webman-framework/src/support/. By loading the files specified in autoload.php, we give priority to the files in the project's root directory, allowing us to customize the content of these two files without modifying the files in vendor. If you don't need to customize them, you can ignore these two configurations.