Hi @unitedmonkeys, the preferred way is to add the package requirements in the package composer.json file

About the error: did you declared a class or alias named Swift? Swift class is used by SwiftMailer, which is a dependency of Laravel

All I do is add the AWS package to my package composer file.

Then I do a composer update and then this downloads Swift.

I'm testing my package inside a basic laravel project, this also has Swift in the vendor file - not sure why?

Here's my packages composer file:

 {
"name": "xxx/xxx",
"description": "",
"authors": [
    {
        "name": "xxx",
        "email": "[email protected]"
    }
],
"require": {
    "php": ">=5.3.0",
    "illuminate/support": "4.1.*",
    "intervention/image": "2.*",
    "aws/aws-sdk-php-laravel": "1.*",
    "components/jquery": "1.9.*"
},
"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "src/migrations",
        "src/controllers",
        "src/models",
        "src/views"
    ],
    "psr-0": {
        "xxx\\xxx\\": "src/"
    }
},
"minimum-stability": "stable"

}

And here's my test laravel projects composer file:

{
"name": "laravel/laravel",
"description": "The Laravel Framework.",
"keywords": ["framework", "laravel"],
"license": "MIT",
"require": {
	"laravel/framework": "4.1.*"
},
"autoload": {
	"classmap": [
		"app/commands",
		"app/controllers",
		"app/models",
		"app/database/migrations",
		"app/database/seeds",
		"app/tests/TestCase.php"
	]
},
"scripts": {
	"post-install-cmd": [
		"php artisan clear-compiled",
		"php artisan optimize"
	],
	"post-update-cmd": [
		"php artisan clear-compiled",
		"php artisan optimize"
	],
	"post-create-project-cmd": [
		"php artisan key:generate"
	]
},
"config": {
	"preferred-install": "dist"
},
"minimum-stability": "stable"

}

Class Swift already exist (belongs to SwiftMailer). Your package should use a namespace to prevent class name collisions

Thanks @Stolz. I've checked out the docs but how to I namespace my package.

At the minute I have this in my composer file:

 "psr-0": {
        "MyCompany\\MyPackage\\": "src/"
    }

My controller sits under, src>controllers>MyPackageController.php

And it's just set up like:

<?php

class MyPackageController extends \BaseController {

Is this correct? How can I namespace the app?

<?php namespace MyCompany\MyPackage;

I suggest reading up on namespacing, PSR-0 and PSR-4 autoloading.

I've namespaces my package.

Im still having issues:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare crypt_random_string()

I googled this and some other people seem to be having the same problem, but I could not find a solution.

Any ideas?