How to use as a standalone PHP

[anjalitechn]

When using as standalone application without laravel It is giving error
Uncaught Illuminate\Contracts\Container\BindingResolutionException: Target [Illuminate\Routing\RouteCollectionInterface] is not instantiable while building [Illuminate\Routing\UrlGenerator]

[anjalitechn]

hi @claar
can you please help.

[claar]

Hi @anjalitechn - I'm sorry, but I'm not able to offer general tech support for this package at this time. If you're able to get to the root of the problem, I'd be happy to review any Pull Request you'd like to create to solve this issue for the community.

[aleemb]

@claar I found the quick fix is as follows, however, I am not familiar with the framework to do this proper. The fix that works for me is inside FormerServicesProvider.php I add the following in bindCoreClasses under the Core Classes comment:

		$app->bindIf(
			\Illuminate\Routing\RouteCollectionInterface::class,
			\Illuminate\Routing\RouteCollection::class
		);

Trying $app->bindIf('routing', \Illuminate\Routing\RouteCollection::class); didn't work, however.

Hope this can be fixed in the repo so Former can once again be used outside of Laravel (when using PHP8+). This is the only thing preventing that use-case right now for anyone using it outside of Laravel, myself included.