# Global autoload

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/global-autoload/18863
**Category:** bedrock
**Tags:** composer, trellis
**Created:** 2020-08-09T20:42:40Z
**Posts:** 5

## Post 1 by @hafrang — 2020-08-09T20:42:40Z

Hello roots community,

As you know, there is a global autoloading with bedrock and in most of the cases it works just perfectly. Nevertheless sometimes it does not work.

In my case, my bedrock site uses a homemade plugin as a dependency and this plugin also has a dependency that is loaded to early and generates an error. The error is exactly the same as described in this [GitHub issue](https://github.com/htmlburger/carbon-fields/issues/899) (not reported on roots).

I get something like that in my composer.json (dependency of the plugin level):

```
"autoload": {
 "files": [
     "./includes/my-field/field.php"
 ],
 "psr-4": {
     "Carbon_Field_YOURFIELDNAME\\": "./includes/my-field/core/"
 }
```

}

My bedrock project automatically generated the autoload files, including the loading of the dependency of my plugin when I required my plugin through composer.

As a temporary solution, I removed the autoloading of this specific dependency from _autoload\_static.php_, _autoload\_real.php_, etc at the bedrock root level. And I manually required _autoload.php_ of the dependency in the plugin initalisation procedure. Well, it works on my dev env, but this is clearly not suitable for production.

I don’t want that the dependency of my plugin to be loaded globally like that, I prefer to handle it manually in my plugin. How should I proceed?

I noticed that there is a [similar topic](https://discordapp.com/channels/85154866468487168/360719525068668929/742103047961837728), however I did not help me.

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## Post 2 by @alwaysblank — 2020-08-09T21:19:58Z

My guess is that your problem is a result of using the [`files` autoload mechanism](https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#files). Unlike PSR-4 autoloading, which loads things _as needed_ anything in the `files` array is loaded for every single request. This probably means your file is loaded at some point by a request that is made “before” things it needs have been loaded. The best solution would probably be to set up your homemade plugin to be loaded w/ PSR-4, and the instantiate it as-needed in your theme, an mu-plugin, etc. That way it won’t be loaded on requests where it isn’t needed.

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## Post 3 by @system — 2020-09-20T20:42:41Z

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## Post 4 by @ben — 2022-02-26T03:08:36Z



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## Post 5 by @ben — 2022-02-26T04:10:56Z