class client not found emojione when using on codenigter

Question

Hello Experts I am in a big problem I am using emojione library to convert short name to image the emojis works fine when using on code php but i want this to use with codegniter i decided to created a model so i can easily access on al over for that I created a function inside my EmojiModel.php

defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

class EmojiModel extends CI_Model {
    public function __construct() {
         parent::__construct();
         require APPPATH . 'third_party/emojione/LoadEmojione.php';
    }

    public function LoadImageEmoji($mojiText) {
        $emoji = new \EmojiLoad();
        return $emoji->LoadImageEmoji($mojiText);
    }
}

inside third party library I hade added the library and created a file named LoadEmoji.php and simply included that file inside model constructor

application\third_party\emojione\LoadEmojione.php

namespace Emojione;
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

class EmojiLoad {
    public function LoadImageEmoji($textEmoji) {
        $client = new Client(new Ruleset());
        $client->imagePathPNG = 'https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/emojione/2.1.4/assets/png/'; 
        return $client->toImage($textEmoji);
    }
}

The error I am getting is

An uncaught Exception was encountered Type: Error

Message: Class "EmojiLoad" not found

I am not sure what should I do because it is important in this library to use namespace i am confused what should I do here

Answer 1

Change this line $emoji = new \EmojiLoad(); to $emoji = new \Emojione\EmojiLoad();. Your EmojiLoad class is in the Emojione namespace, so you need to add the namespace before the classname when using it.

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Alternatively, as shirshak007 suggested, if you're only using your custom EmojiLoad class in the EmojiModel class, you can also use the Emoijone library directly in the model.

In that case I would also suggest using CodeIgniter's composer_autoload function:

In application/config/config.php, set $config['composer_autoload'] to TRUE.

This expects the composer.json file to live in the application folder, so copy it there from the application/third_party/emojione folder and then delete the application/third_party/emojione folder. If you then do composer install from the application folder, it'll create a new vendor folder inside the application folder.

Then use the Emojione library directly in the model:

<?php

defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

use Emojione\Client;
use Emojione\Ruleset;

class EmojiModel extends CI_Model {
    public function __construct() {
         parent::__construct();
    }

    public function LoadImageEmoji($mojiText) {
        $client = new Client(new Ruleset());
        $client->imagePathPNG = 'https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/emojione/2.1.4/assets/png/'; 
        return $client->toImage($mojiText);
    }
}