Add custom package to composer.json file - composer-php

Question

I have a custom package that is not uploaded on github or packagist and I need to add it to a Laravel 5.1 project.
This is my package folder structure:
Packages
\_ christian
\_ smsservice
\_src
\_ Facades
\_ MySMS.php
\_ SMSServiceServiceProvider.php
\_ vendor
\_ composer
\_ autoload.php
I have edited my root composer.json to add the package:
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "app/",
"Christian\\SMSService\\": "app/Packages/christian/smsservice/src/"
},
Then I have added the service provider and the facade to the app.php file but when I try to use the package I get:
FatalErrorException in ProviderRepository.php line 146:
Class 'Christian\SMSService\SMSServiceServiceProvider' not found
But the ServiceProvider exists and the namespace is correct:
namespace Christian\SMSService;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use Illuminate\Routing\Router;
class SMSServiceServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider {
//Code
}

Answer 1

I needed that functionality too. I'm using the following code for one of my local Laravel projects:
{
"name": "laravel/laravel",
"description": "The Laravel Framework.",
"keywords": ["framework", "laravel"],
"license": "MIT",
"type": "project",
"repositories": [
{
"type": "path",
"url": "../../GitHub/laravel-page-visits-counter"
}
],
"require": {
"php": ">=5.6.4",
"laravel/framework": "5.4.*",
"laravel/tinker": "~1.0",
"cyrildewit/laravel-page-visits-counter": "dev-master"
},
"require-dev": {
"fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4",
"mockery/mockery": "0.9.*",
"phpunit/phpunit": "~5.7"
},
"autoload": {
"classmap": [
"database"
],
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "app/"
}
},
"autoload-dev": {
"psr-4": {
"Tests\\": "tests/"
}
},
"scripts": {
"post-root-package-install": [
"php -r \"file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');\""
],
"post-create-project-cmd": [
"php artisan key:generate"
],
"post-install-cmd": [
"Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postInstall",
"php artisan optimize"
],
"post-update-cmd": [
"Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postUpdate",
"php artisan optimize"
]
},
"config": {
"preferred-install": "dist",
"sort-packages": true,
"optimize-autoloader": true
}
}