installation.md

Installation

To install the Ivory Google Map library, you will need Composer. It's a PHP 5.3+ dependency manager which allows you to declare the dependent libraries your project needs and it will install & autoload them for you.

Set up Composer

Composer comes with a simple phar file. To easily access it from anywhere on your system, you can execute:

$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Download the library

Require the library in your composer.json file:

$ composer require egeloen/google-map

Download additional libraries

If you want to use the Direction, Distance Matrix, Elevation, Geocoder, Time Zone services, you will need an http client and message factory via Httplug which is an http client abstraction library:

$ composer require php-http/guzzle6-adapter
$ composer require php-http/message

Here, I have chosen to use Guzzle6 but since Httplug supports the most popular http clients, you can install your preferred one instead.

Autoload

So easy, you just have to require the generated autoload file and you are already ready to play:

<?php

require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

use Ivory\GoogleMap;

// ...

The Ivory Google Map library follows the PSR-4 Standard. If you prefer install it manually, it can be autoload by any convenient autoloader.