Installing php-font-lib in Joomla libraries namespacing

Question

I am currently trying to install php-font-lib in joomla, i have been working with custom libraries in joomla for the last 3 hours, So I have absolutely no idea whats going on.

I have Joomla 3.3.

I have gotten it to kind of work, if i remove the namespacing from a file and call it via: jimport('fontlib.Font');

then i tried the following: JLoader::registerNamespace('FontLib', JPATH_LIBRARIES . '/fontlib/');

but i still can not seem to call the Font class.

Is there something I am doing incorrectly?

Any Help Greatly Appreciated.

Answer 1

There are two ways you can do it.

I copied php-font-lib in the path shown in the image below.

Using jimport (with basically just replaces dots with slashes), you can choose to use the Autoloader provided by php-font-lib, which might decouple you nicely from Joomla.

jimport('php-font-lib.src.FontLib.Autoloader');

$font = \FontLib\Font::load('Norasi.ttf');
var_dump($font);

Using the Joomla Autoloader

JLoader::registerNamespace('FontLib', JPATH_LIBRARIES . '/php-font-lib/src/');

$font = \FontLib\Font::load('Norasi.ttf');
var_dump($font);

Enjoy.