Httpful and Laravel, error Class 'Httpful' not found

Question

I've installed Httpful as described with Composer adding to composer.json the following:

{
    "require": {
        "nategood/httpful": "*"
    }
}

I'm using Laravel 4 so i ran composer install I've checked if the plugin is installed and is there, in fact under the vendor folder of laravel i can find it. But i keep getting the following error:

ERROR: exception 'Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException' with message 'Class 'Httpful' not found'

I'm missing some steps?

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

The class related to this package name conflicts with Laravel's Response class, so this is how you use it in Laravel:

$url = "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=22.569719&lon=88.36972";

$response = \Httpful\Request::get($url)->send();

echo $response->body->name."<br>";
echo $response->body->weather[0]->description;

The class is not Httpful, but Response, so you have to add the correct Namespace so it doesn't get confused by Laravel's Response class.

EDIT:

In Laravel you can create aliases for classes. Edit your app/config/app.php and in the aliases array, add:

'aliases' => array(
         ....

     'Httpful'      => '\Httpful\Request',
),

And you'll be able to use it this way:

$response = Httpful::get($url)->send();