Cant load web3-php

[jose5958]

I am not an expert, i am having this trouble.
First i created a composer.json:

{
"minimum-stability": "dev",

}

then, in visual code, from terminal, i wrote this command:
"composer require web3-php/web3"
and terminal thorw this:

Using version dev-master for web3-php/web3
./composer.json has been updated
Running composer update web3-php/web3
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Lock file operations: 12 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals

• Locking guzzlehttp/guzzle (dev-master c1fd316)
• Locking guzzlehttp/promises (dev-master fe752ae)
• Locking guzzlehttp/psr7 (dev-master c5b547b)
• Locking paragonie/constant_time_encoding (v2.5.0)
• Locking paragonie/random_compat (v9.99.100)
• Locking phpseclib/phpseclib (3.0.x-dev 60edff7)
• Locking psr/http-client (dev-master 22b2ef5)
• Locking psr/http-factory (dev-master 36fa03d)
• Locking psr/http-message (dev-master efd67d1)
• Locking ralouphie/getallheaders (3.0.3)
• Locking symfony/deprecation-contracts (dev-main 893fd20)
• Locking web3-php/web3 (dev-master 061828b)
  Writing lock file
  Installing dependencies from lock file (including require-dev)
  Package operations: 12 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals
• Downloading psr/http-message (dev-master efd67d1)
• Downloading psr/http-factory (dev-master 36fa03d)
• Downloading guzzlehttp/psr7 (dev-master c5b547b)
• Downloading psr/http-client (dev-master 22b2ef5)
• Downloading symfony/deprecation-contracts (dev-main 893fd20)
• Downloading phpseclib/phpseclib (3.0.x-dev 60edff7)
• Downloading guzzlehttp/guzzle (dev-master c1fd316)
• Installing guzzlehttp/promises (dev-master fe752ae): Extracting archive
• Installing ralouphie/getallheaders (3.0.3): Extracting archive
• Installing psr/http-message (dev-master efd67d1): Extracting archive
• Installing psr/http-factory (dev-master 36fa03d): Extracting archive
• Installing guzzlehttp/psr7 (dev-master c5b547b): Extracting archive
• Installing paragonie/random_compat (v9.99.100): Extracting archive
• Installing psr/http-client (dev-master 22b2ef5): Extracting archive
• Installing symfony/deprecation-contracts (dev-main 893fd20): Extracting archive
• Installing phpseclib/phpseclib (3.0.x-dev 60edff7): Extracting archive
• Installing guzzlehttp/guzzle (dev-master c1fd316): Extracting archive
• Installing web3-php/web3 (dev-master 061828b): Extracting archive
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  Generating autoload files
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And in folder, appear the composer.lock and vendor folder with a bunch of stuff installed.

Inside the vendor folder there is an autoload.php file, which has this code in it:

// autoload.php @generated by Composer

require_once DIR . '/composer/autoload_real.php';

return ComposerAutoloaderInit9f1c798e6bb2829771949001eeeee0c7::getLoader();

so i want to make a test, and add the following to the autoload.php file:

// autoload.php @generated by Composer

require_once DIR . '/composer/autoload_real.php';

return ComposerAutoloaderInit9f1c798e6bb2829771949001eeeee0c7::getLoader();

print ("test");

Then go to my browser, http://localhost/web3ppp/vendor/autoload.php and nothing happend:

but if i put the
print ("test"); before the return line, the text "test" appear,

// autoload.php @generated by Composer

require_once DIR . '/composer/autoload_real.php';

print ("test");

return ComposerAutoloaderInit9f1c798e6bb2829771949001eeeee0c7::getLoader();

so there is something wrong with the return line, but i dont know what is wrong.

Im using xampp with php 8.0.6 on windows 10.

Can anyone tell me what im doing wrong?

[owenvoke]

You may want to have a look at how Composer works overall, but you should be requiring vendor/autoload.php from your project (outside of the vendor directory), rather than accessing the autoloader directly. 🙂

For example, if you added an index.php file in your web3ppp directory. You can add:

<?php

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

use Web3\Web3;

$web3 = new Web3('http://127.0.0.1:8545');

// ...