Hello. Im trying to create a plugin to interact with MercadoLibre's API. Can someone give me a hand on what's steps should i follow? Im a little bit lost. I can make the api work, but dont't know how to integrate it into the plugin. Should i copy the SDK files into the vendor directory? Or should i use composer for installing it? Its any difference? What's next? Thank you a lot!

You can use composer.json, look at the demo plugin to see an example. For testing you can run composer install inside the plugin directory. If you decide to publish the plugin, then don't include the vendor directory, the server will build it for you.

Alternatively you can go old school and just include the files you need.

I do the composer.json file and it installed thepackage succefully! Now, i need to initialize the plugin Should i put this code inside the Plugin.php or should i put it inside a component and include the component in the page? Thank you very much for your help!

    $meli = new Meli(array(
        'appId'         => 12345,
        'secret'        => dsadsaDWFfs24DF34dgg43T3,
    ));

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I put the code above inside a component, and include the component inside a page. When loading the page i get

Class 'Damianm\Mercadolibre2\Components\Meli' not found

How should i reference the Meli class that i download with the composer and its now in my Vendor's folder?

Try this way:

$meli = new \Meli([
    'appId'         => 12345,
    'secret'        => dsadsaDWFfs24DF34dgg43T3,
]);

If Meli class have any namespace you should use:

new NAMESPACE\Meli()

Use good editor and it will import necessary classes for you. E.g. PhpStorm.

If you want to share this plugin with others, you should consider using October Settings Model to pull credientials from database.