php - Fatal error: Class 'DotenvDotenv' not found in

Question

Hello guys I am so confused I dont know what I am doing wrong this told me Fatal error: Class 'DotenvDotenv' not found in

But I dont understand why..

$dotenv = new DotenvDotenv(dirname(dirname(dirname(dirname(__DIR__)))));
$dotenv->load();

My structure is the next and in the file index.php is where I am calling Dotenv also I used use DotenvDotenv; but it doesnt work too.

Answer 1

Be sure that you are using Dotenv after loading from vendor/autoload.php.

For example, I was using OpenCart, in which contained a file startup.php with:

// Autoloader
if (file_exists(DIR_VENDOR . 'autoload.php')) {
    require_once(DIR_VENDOR . 'autoload.php');
}

And I had defined DIR_VENDOR in config.php as:

define('DIR_VENDOR', __DIR__.'/vendor/');

So finally, in index.php, I would have:

// Startup
require_once(DIR_SYSTEM . 'startup.php');

// dotenv
$dotenv = new DotenvDotenv(__DIR__);
$dotenv->load();

So startup.php loads vendor/autoload.php, which loads vlucas/phpdotenv, after which we can then find DotenvDotenv.