Question

I have some custom classes that just contain static utility methods:

app/Lib/Utility/AppString.php

Cake can’t find the class though. I have tried:

// app/Config/bootstrap.php

App::uses('AppString', 'Utility');
App::uses('AppString', 'Lib/Utility');
App::uses('AppString', 'Lib');

I don’t know what I should be putting to get Cake to find the classes. I am doing this in my bootstrap.php because the classes are essential to the app.

Answer 1

It turns out that I was correct to use:

App::uses('AppString', 'Utility');

However, there was a syntax error in my class AppString. This causes confusing messages, as PHP will report a fatal error that the class could not be found, when in fact it’s just because of the error in the file.