I am currently in the midst of developing a new side-project and wanted to use the same class as a base for two separate elements of the project. This class features some helper classes I want available. Each element has its own repo which is using  composer as its package manager. I wanted to create my own package from a git repo which will house my base class.

In the examples below, my reusable package will feature two classes, on called Utils and the other Base. They will both be scoped to the Mikestreety namespace.

This blog post also assumes you have basic knowledge of composer

Prepare your files and folders

Create a new repo with your classes in. A common convention is to put your classes in a src/ folder inside of the repository. Create a new composer.json file too - and place it in the root of the repo. The folder structure should be something like:

• /
• composer.json
• src/
• Base.php
• Utils.php

The next step is to namespace you classes - this prevents any other classes with the same name in your application or in another package.

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