Laravel 4 using vendor classes - class

Question

I have installed Laravel 4 after using 3, love it.
I used to be able to use the Zend framework as such:
$yt = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube();
for instance
I have used composer to install Zend and everything is installed in the Vendor folder..
Problem:
How to address the individual classes i.e. Zend Gdata etc.
I can't find any documentation on calling classes from a vendor in L4.
Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Take a look at your vendor\composer\autoload_classmap.php file. In there you will find a list of all vendor classes that are being autoloaded. I think all classes will have to be called using their full namespaced name.
E.g.
I'm using Zizaco's Entrust package. This is what it looks like in the vendor\composer\autoload_classmap.php file.
'Zizaco\\Entrust\\Entrust' => $vendorDir . /zizaco/entrust/src/Zizaco/Entrust/Entrust.php',
If I wanted to access the Entrust.php class I have to call
$en = new Zizaco\Entrust\Entrust();
Alternatively you could alias certain classes in your app\config\app.php file.
E.g.
'Ent' => 'Zizaco\Entrust\Entrust'
In your case you'll need to do something like this:
$yt = new Zend\namespace\Zend_Gdata_YouTube();