Acorn tries to load config a second time when installed in a bedrock theme

acorn
1

Hi,

When installing acorn via composer inside bedrock and calling the following setup function in the functions file of my theme, I get error telling me that it’s trying to define the constants that are set in application.php a second time (and crashes).

add_action('after_setup_theme', function () {
	Application::configure()
		->withProviders([
			App\Providers\ThemeServiceProvider::class,
		])
		->boot();
}, 0);

I have tried installing a sage theme and following it via xdebug, but - in sage - it does not consider bedrock’s /config folder as config filees and so doesn’t cause the issue.

Is there a way to tell acorn that config files are already loaded when calling it without sage?

2

I’m not understanding the issue. Sage doesn’t do anything special in this context.

Can you provide a repo?

3

I’d have to recreate non-private project to provide a repo so that will have to wait.
Basically, what I’ve seen is that acorn being called inside a theme returns {project_root}/config as $app->configPath and sage returns {theme_root}/config as $app->configPath

4

I have managed to bypass this issue by doing

add_action('after_setup_theme', function () {
	Application::configure(get_template_directory())
		->withProviders([
			App\Providers\ThemeServiceProvider::class,
		])
		->boot();
}, 0);

The difference being in the configure() function.

Hopefully, I did not shoot myself in the foot because if this works I’ll be able to get my lead to buy radicle licenses

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5

Setting the base path like that would definitely make sense depending on the configuration. :+1:

6

One final note for people who might fall unto this issue in the future.
As written here : Directory Structure | Acorn Docs | Roots
With bedrock, you’re only supposed to install Acorn inside your theme.
As in, composer inside your theme folder.

I have so many years of pure laravel that when I fell into wordpress + bedrock and considered acorn, I instantly considered that it would go into the bedrock composer.

Either set up your acorn in your theme composer file or set the base path as defined above with configue().