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Class Autoloading ¶

Yii relies on the class autoloading mechanism
to locate and include all required class files. It provides a high-performance class autoloader that is compliant with the
PSR-4 standard.
The autoloader is installed when you include the Yii.php file.

Note: For simplicity of description, in this section we will only talk about autoloading of classes. However, keep in
mind that the content we are describing here applies to autoloading of interfaces and traits as well.

Using the Yii Autoloader ¶

To make use of the Yii class autoloader, you should follow two simple rules when creating and naming your classes:

• Each class must be under a namespace (e.g. foo\bar\MyClass)
• Each class must be saved in an individual file whose path is determined by the following algorithm:

 
$classFile = Yii::getAlias(
'@'
 . str_replace(
'\\'
, 
'/'
, $className) . 
'.php'
);

For example, if a class name and namespace is foo\bar\MyClass, the alias for the corresponding class file path
would be @foo/bar/MyClass.php. In order for this alias to be resolvable into a file path,
either @foo or @foo/bar must be a root alias.

When using the Basic Project Template, you may put your classes under the top-level
namespace app so that they can be autoloaded by Yii without the need of defining a new alias. This is because
@app is a predefined alias, and a class name like app\components\MyClass
can be resolved into the class file AppBasePath/components/MyClass.php, according to the algorithm just described.

In the Advanced Project Template, each tier has its own root alias. For example,
the front-end tier has a root alias @frontend, while the back-end tier root alias is @backend. As a result,
you may put the front-end classes under the namespace frontend while the back-end classes are under backend. This will
allow these classes to be autoloaded by the Yii autoloader.

To add a custom namespace to the autoloader you need to define an alias for the base directory of the namespace using Yii::setAlias().
For example to load classes in the foo namespace that are located in the path/to/foo directory you will call Yii::setAlias('@foo', 'path/to/foo').

Class Map ¶

The Yii class autoloader supports the class map feature, which maps class names to the corresponding class file paths.
When the autoloader is loading a class, it will first check if the class is found in the map. If so, the corresponding
file path will be included directly without further checks. This makes class autoloading super fast. In fact,
all core Yii classes are autoloaded this way.

You may add a class to the class map, stored in Yii::$classMap, using:

Yii::$classMap[
'foo\bar\MyClass'
] = 
'path/to/MyClass.php'
;

Aliases can be used to specify class file paths. You should set the class map in the
bootstrapping process so that the map is ready before your classes are used.

Using Other Autoloaders ¶

Because Yii embraces Composer as a package dependency manager, it is recommended that you also install
the Composer autoloader. If you are using 3rd-party libraries that have their own autoloaders, you should
also install those.

When using the Yii autoloader together with other autoloaders, you should include the Yii.php file
after all other autoloaders are installed. This will make the Yii autoloader the first one responding to
any class autoloading request. For example, the following code is extracted from
the entry script of the Basic Project Template. The first
line installs the Composer autoloader, while the second line installs the Yii autoloader:

require
 
__DIR__
 . 
'/../vendor/autoload.php'
;
require
 
__DIR__
 . 
'/../vendor/yiisoft/yii2/Yii.php'
;

You may use the Composer autoloader alone without the Yii autoloader. However, by doing so, the performance
of your class autoloading may be degraded, and you must follow the rules set by Composer in order for your classes
to be autoloadable.

Info: If you do not want to use the Yii autoloader, you must create your own version of the Yii.php file
and include it in your entry script.

Autoloading Extension Classes ¶

The Yii autoloader is capable of autoloading extension classes. The sole requirement
is that an extension specifies the autoload section correctly in its composer.json file. Please refer to the
Composer documentation for more details about specifying autoload.

In case you do not use the Yii autoloader, the Composer autoloader can still autoload extension classes for you.

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