Implementing GeocodableBehavior in Symfony 1.4 (using Propel) - symfony-1.4

Question

I'm trying to implement the GeocodableBehavior on a Symfony 1.4 (with Propel 1.6) project i'm working on, but until now it's a complete failure. I've tried to search if other people but I didn't found anything, like if I was the only one having troubles with this.
So, maybe I'm missing something very very easy, but following the instructions given on the GeocodableBehavior leads to nothing but errors, and I can't figure out where's the problem.
I followed instructions for the GeocodableBehavior (here -> http://www.propelorm.org/cookbook/geocodable-behavior.html)
This seems to work as i'm getting the latitude/longitude columns created on my model. Until then, it works fine.
Where things get a little more complicated is when trying to save an object with the GeocodableBehavior, there's problems with the Geocoder class.
(Documentation here -> https://github.com/willdurand/Geocoder)
My class is Point, referring to a geolocated point, an address. When creating a Point using sf admin generator, the behavior which is supposed to use some fields (street, postal_code, country, etc) to query the GoogleMaps api, just fails to use the Geocoder class.
Fatal error: Class 'Geocoder\Geocoder' not found in /var/www/vhosts/www._________.local/lib/model/om/BasePoint.php on line 3717
I put the Geocoder class in a lib/vendor/geocoder folder, I tried to use the autoload.yml file to load it, but nothing changes...
autoload:
geocoder:
name: geocoder
path: %SF_LIB_DIR%/vendor/geocoder
recursive: on
There's something i'm missing in how to load those classes in my sf project, and i can't find what. Geocoder package has an autoload.php file but i didn't manage to "load" it successfully...
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I know it's kinda giving up on the autoloader, but you could establish a register function in /config/ProjectConfiguration.class.php. The only downside is that you will need to add a call to the function before any block that uses Geocoder.
class ProjectConfiguration extends sfProjectConfiguration
{
static protected $geocoderLoaded = false;
static public function registerGeocoder()
{
if (self::$geocoderLoaded) {
return;
}
require_once sfConfig::get('sf_lib_dir') . '/vendor/geocoder/autoload.php';
self::$geocoderLoaded = true;
}
...
}
Then just execute ProjectConfiguration::registerGeocoder(); anywhere you'd need the class. It's more annoying than getting the autoloader to work, but it's at least dependable.

Answer 2

Did you check your autoload cache to see it there is something related to Geocoder?
/cache/[apps_name]/dev/config/config_autoload.yml.php
/cache/project_autoload.cache
Maybe, manually add the autoload in the /config/ProjectConfiguration.class.php:
class ProjectConfiguration extends sfProjectConfiguration
{
public function setup()
{
require_once sfConfig::get('sf_lib_dir').'/vendor/geocoder/src/autoload.php';

Answer 3

Using the built-in autoloader should be a working option, but you can also combine symfony's autoloader with a "PSR-0 enabled" one. Basically, this boils down to the following implementation:
public function setup()
{
// plugin stuff here
// register the new autoloader
spl_autoload_register(array($this, 'autoloadNamespace'));
}
public function autoloadNamespace($className)
{
$className = ltrim($className, '\\');
$fileName = '';
$namespace = '';
if ($lastNsPos = strripos($className, '\\'))
{
$namespace = substr($className, 0, $lastNsPos);
$className = substr($className, $lastNsPos + 1);
$fileName = str_replace('\\', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $namespace) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
}
// make sure that the path to Geocoder is correct
foreach(array(
sfConfig::get('sf_lib_dir').'/vendor/Geocoder/src' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $fileName . $className . '.php',
) as $fileName)
{
if (file_exists($fileName))
{
require $fileName;
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
With this additional autoloader, your application should be able to use Geocoder.