Yii自动加载错误

Question

I am working on a project, that I have inherited from several previous teams, thus all the ins and outs of all the workings is beyond my knowledge. But I'm trying to implement a new class EmailListener and it is in the file EmailListener.php under ../protected/controllers. When Try to call this class I get an error

include(EmailListener.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

from within yiiBase autoload line 421 else 421 include($className.'.php'); //this line

I have looked around extensively and the only suggestion is to check for case sensitivity. Which I have, multiple times. To the extent of copying the entire path into the class name and deleting everything around "EmailListener" to ensure that there are no typos that I am not seeing. I have also tried different manual includes of my file before the command is run to call it and that just crashes the whole website. Are there any other things I could be doing wrong? Is there any other code I can present?

Thank you for any help, I'm pulling my hair out.

Answer 1

First off, the protected/controllers directory should only be used for controllers. Extra classes you create for other things generally go in protected/components.

Your protected/config/main.php (and protected/config/console.php if you're doing console stuff) should have an import section. By default, one of the things imported is "application.components.*". If that's the case, than any class you put in protected/components will auto-load when you ask for it.