Need a guide on how to use without Composer

[Rubinskiy]

It is mentioned in the guide that it's possible to use by only cloning the repository.
If anyone would kindly give a test script to demonstrate this possibility.

[halaxa]

It is not recommended, because there's no easy autoloading capability. But you're free to clone the repo, checkout the desired version, try to use the library and require_once every file with the class reported as missing. If really needed, an issue or PR might be made to discuss how to automate this for usages without composer autoloading.

Edit: Since version 1.1.0 there is a built-in optional autoloader for the use cases without composer. See README.

[Rubinskiy]

Ah, just as I thought. so I'm required to add a require_once reference to the main JsonMachine.php file in /src right?

[halaxa]

Yes, for the time being. As well as all other missing classes. But JsonMachine.php is an entrypoint which "tells" you all other missing ones.

[a-sync]

For anyone with a similar problem, here is a loader u can place next to the src folder:

<?php
/**
 * A simple PSR-4 spec auto loader to allow json-machine to function the same as if it were loaded via Composer
 *
 * To use this just include this file in your script and the JsonMachine namespace will be made available
 *
 * i.e. require_once('/path/to/json-machine/Autoloader.php');
 *
 * See: https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-4-autoloader-examples.md
 *
 * @param string $class The fully-qualified class name.
 * @return void
 */
spl_autoload_register(function ($class) {

    // project-specific namespace prefix
    $prefix = 'JsonMachine\\';

    // base directory for the namespace prefix
    $base_dir = __DIR__ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'src' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

    // does the class use the namespace prefix?
    $len = strlen($prefix);
    if (strncmp($prefix, $class, $len) !== 0) {
        // no, move to the next registered autoloader
        return;
    }

    // get the relative class name
    $relative_class = substr($class, $len);

    // replace the namespace prefix with the base directory, replace namespace
    // separators with directory separators in the relative class name, append
    // with .php
    $file = $base_dir . str_replace('\\', '/', $relative_class) . '.php';

    // if the file exists, require it
    if (file_exists($file)) {
        require $file;
    }
});

[halaxa]

Nice. PR?