Composer-php with ZendFramework 1 not working - zend-framework

Question

Classes managed through composer do not exist at the point I'm trying to instantiate them, which is in the controller.
I have my Zendframework 1.12.8 file/directory structure like this:
project
- application
- public
- index.php
- library
- vendor
- composer.json
- composer.lock
The contents of my index.php file are:
<?php
// Define path to application directory
defined('APPLICATION_PATH')
|| define('APPLICATION_PATH', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../application'));
// Define application environment
defined('APPLICATION_ENV')
|| define('APPLICATION_ENV', (getenv('APPLICATION_ENV') ? getenv('APPLICATION_ENV') : 'production'));
// Ensure library/ is on include_path
set_include_path(implode(PATH_SEPARATOR, array(
realpath(APPLICATION_PATH . '/../library'),
get_include_path(),
)));
/** Composer autoloader */
if (file_exists(realpath(APPLICATION_PATH . '/../vendor/autoload.php'))) {
require_once realpath(APPLICATION_PATH . '/../vendor/autoload.php');
}
/** Zend_Application */
require_once 'Zend/Application.php';
// Create application, bootstrap, and run
$application = new Zend_Application(
APPLICATION_ENV,
APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/application.ini'
);
$application->bootstrap()
->run();
The composer autoload.php is included, but seems to be ignored or overwritten by Zend_Application. According to blogs I've seen this is the correct place to include it. Any clues?

Answer 1

Right. A colleague found the solutions: we need to prefix the namespace that composer has used when we instantiate the composer-managed class. So new Vimeo\Vimeo($foo, $bar) works, or putting use Vimeo\Video before making an instance new Vimeo($foo, $bar).