Getting Started

What is Container?

Container is a small but powerful dependency injection container that allows you to decouple components in your application in order to write clean and testable code.

The container can automatically resolve dependencies of objects resolved through it.

Container on Packagist

Goals

• Create a powerful dependency injection container that maintains speed and ease of use

Questions?

Container was created by Phil Bennett. Find him on Twitter at @philipobenito.

Installation

System Requirements

You need PHP >= 5.4.0 to use League\Container but the latest stable version of PHP is recommended.

Composer

Container is available on Packagist and can be installed using Composer:

composer require league/container

Most modern frameworks will include Composer out of the box, but ensure the following file is included:

<?php

// include the Composer autoloader
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

Going Solo

You can also use Container without using Composer by registering an autoloader function:

spl_autoload_register(function ($class) {
    $prefix = 'League\\Container\\';
    $base_dir = __DIR__ . '/src/';
    $len = strlen($prefix);
    if (strncmp($prefix, $class, $len) !== 0) {
        // no, move to the next registered autoloader
        return;
    }
    $relative_class = substr($class, $len);
    $file = $base_dir . str_replace('\\', '/', $relative_class) . '.php';
    if (file_exists($file)) {
        require $file;
    }
});

Or, use any other PSR-4 compatible autoloader.