Run composer accross a broswser with a PHP - php

Question

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Run composer with a PHP script in browser
My problem is to solve how to install a library without terminal and take in consideration some hosting do not accept the exec command.
In summary the user can just click on the button to install apps with the library
Thank you.
I tried 2 solutions :
use Composer\Console\Application;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArrayInput;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\StreamOutput;
putenv('COMPOSER_HOME=' . self::$root); // /www/mywebsite/shop/
putenv('COMPOSER_CACHE_DIR=' . CORE::BASE_DIRECTORY . '/Work/Cache/Composer/');
putenv('COMPOSER_HTACCESS_PROTECT=0');
first with this code
$stream = fopen('php://temp', 'w+');
$output = new StreamOutput($stream);
$application = new Application();
$application->setAutoExit(false);
$code = $application->run(new ArrayInput(array('command' => 'install tinify/tinify')), $output);
$result = stream_get_contents($stream);
var_dump($code);
var_dump($result);
The result is : (not work and nothing is installed)
int(1) string(0) ""
The second approach :
$input = new ArrayInput(array('command' => 'install tinify/tinify'));
$application = new Application();
$application->setAutoExit(false); // prevent `$application->run` method from exitting the script
$result = $application->run($input);
var_dump($result);
The result is : (not work and nothing is installed)
int(1)

Answer 1

You do not need to run composer on the production server.
You can run composer in a project on a computer with similar software (OS, php version). Then you can copy already built project directory with vendor folder in it to the production server.
Usually you can zip/gzip it first then transfer then unzip/ungzip. For the follow up updates something like rsync may be a fast solution for updating only those parts of project folder that changed.
You may want to have a script that copies your development directory first then cleans up any personal credentials (e.g. passwords to any SaaS solutions you use for development), and then does the composer & transfer automatically.