parent class is being searched in wrong location

Question

I am trying to custom create an MVC folder structure on top of the fat-free framework.I have a controllers folder with two files, base.php and index.php. Now I am trying to load the index file like:

$f3->route('GET /','Index->index');

But I get a fatal error:

Fatal error: Class 'controllers\Base' not found

code for base.php:

<?php
namespace controllers;
class Base extends \Prefab {
    protected $f3;

    public function __construct() {
        $this->f3 = \Base::instance();
    }
}

code for index.php

<?php
namespace controllers;
class Index extends Base {

    public function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public function index($f3, $params) {
        echo "Hello World!";
    }
}

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

The controllers folder should be a subfolder of your AUTOLOAD folder. Something like this:

- autoload
 |- controllers
   |- base.php
   |- index.php
- lib
 |- base.php
- index.php

And your root index.php would look like this:

$f3=require('lib/base.php');
$f3->set('AUTOLOAD','autoload/');
$f3->route('GET /','controllers\Index->index');

PS: what happened in your example is that the controllers folder being declared as the autoload folder, base.php and index.php were seen as part of the root namespace.