Problem getting class instantiated

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database = new medoo([
    'database_type' => 'sqlite',
    'database_file' => '../storage/database.db'
]);

Class not found. I used the instructions given in the book. catfan/medoo is in the vendor folder. Composer.json

Needed to include Medoo/Medoo not in book.

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Class names are case sensitive, so new Medoo should work.

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It did but I also had to drop strong typing in the constructor. By the way, there is also a check that a comment must be greater than 10 chars. “It works” is only nine so an error is thrown.

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Have you included composer’s autoloader?

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Did that change in PHP 7? At least in PHP 5 class names are case-insensitive.

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To be more accurate, the PSR-4 autoloader standard used by composer forces case sensitivity (on most systems!), effectively making class names case sensitive the first time you use them.

I wrote in detail about problems this causes here: https://r.je/php-autoloaders-should-not-be-case-sensitive.html Unfortunately we’re stuck with it. At this point it would be better if PHP enforced case sensitivity.

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