CodeIgniter - How to load stripe-php library in project?

Question

I'm using Stripe's php library. DL link: https://code.stripe.com/stripe-php-latest.zip I have tried codeigniters load library method, but still a server error. I tried putting the library in `application/libraries` and then load my library with `$this->load->libraries('Stripe.php');` I've change all capitals to lowercases, still getting the error. Following is the code of Stripe.php ``` <?php // Tested on PHP 5.2, 5.3 // This snippet (and some of the curl code) due to the Facebook SDK. if (!function_exists('curl_init')) { throw new Exception('Stripe needs the CURL PHP extension.'); } if (!function_exists('json_decode')) { throw new Exception('Stripe needs the JSON PHP extension.'); } if (!function_exists('mb_detect_encoding')) { throw new Exception('Stripe needs the Multibyte String PHP extension.'); } // Stripe singleton require(dirname(__FILE__) . '/Stripe/Stripe.php'); // Utilities require(dirname(__FILE__) . '/Stripe/Util.php'); require(dirname(__FILE__) . '/Stripe/Util/Set.php');…

Accepted Answer

When loading a library, the first parameter is the class name, not the file name. If the file contained a class called `Stripe`, then you could load it by calling:

```
$this->load->libraries('stripe');
```

Note, if the file is in an subdirectory, then you would need to include the path relative to the libraries directory.

If the file doesn't have a class, but a set of functions instead, then it's considered to be a helper, not a library. You can load a helper by calling this function, passing the file name without its extension as the first parameter:

```
$this->load->helper('file_name')
```

Looking at the library you want to use, you'll likely need to adapt it to the form of a CodeIgniter library.

If you don't want to adapt it to function as a CodeIgniter library, there's nothing stopping you including it using PHP, rather than loading it as a library:

```
require_once(APPPATH.'libraries/Stripe/lib/Stripe.php'); // Your path may be different
```

CodeIgniter - How to load stripe-php library in project?

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