I'm trying to use the Plivo PHP helper library in my project, but looks like the only way to use it is with Composer. Is there any work around for this since I cannot use composer in my project as it would change the existing code?
Plivo Sales Engineer here.
Unfortunately, Plivo-PHP helper library can be used only with Composer. If installing the library with Composer is not feasible, you could download and install the dependencies individually and include the libraries in your project. Or, you could also make HTTP requests to the API directly without using the helper library. You could use cURL or Requests library to make these requests.
I had a similar issue.
The access to the server was very limited, I had only FTP access, I could have waited to ask for SSH access to do the install using composer I simply installed Composer on my local machine and then just had to run
composer require plivo/php-sdk
In an empty directory. It created the SDK files under /vendor and I uploaded those files through FTP to the server. Did the job for me.
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I found a PHP caching library that I'd like to use in CodeIgniter, but the docs only have instructions for installing / using with composer: http://www.php-cache.com/en/latest/
I inherited a project on a server that doesn't have Composer. Ideally I would like to use it without Composer. Does anyone have any knowledge of how to load this without it?
well, you could download the package itself and add it to your Codeignitter libraries autoload (if that's possible, sorry, dont know too much of CodeIgnitter). Though if i'd be you i'd go into Composer, it is revolutionary for php apps and you're loosing out so much by not using it... just composer init in main app folder & make sure that your CI is reading the autoloaded classes (i bet you'll find some tutorial for that)
by download I mean download and require in your php files where you're using it!
I've created tool, that runs as a server, and allow clients to connect to it through TCP, and run some commands. It's written on python 3
Now I'm going to build package and upload it to Pypi, and have conceptual problem.
This tool have python client library inside, so, after installation of the package, it'll be possible to just import library into python script, and use for connection to the daemon without dealing with raw TCP/IP.
Also, I have PHP library, for connection to me server, and the problem is - I don't know how to include it into my python package the right way.
Variants, that I found and can't choose the right one:
Just include library.php file into package, and after running "pip install my_package", I would write "require('/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/my_package/library.php')" into my php file. This way allows to distribute library with the server, and update it synchronously, but add long ugly paths to php require instruction.
As library.php in placed on github repository, I could just publish it's url in the docs, and it'll be possible to just clone repository. It makes possible to clone repo, and update library by git pull.
Create separate package with my library.php, upload it into packagist, and use composer to download it when it's needed. Good for all composer users, and allow manual update, but doens't update with server's package.
Maybe I've missed some other variants.
I want to know what would be true python'ic and php'ic way to do this. Thanks.
I've decided to create separate PHP package for my PHP library, and upload it to a packagist.org, so, user could get it using php composer, but not forced to, as it would be in case of including library.php into python package.
(don,t get angry with that)why we use composer i searched in google it says it is used for the dependencies of laravel, but why we create project in composer?cant we create it in simply in xampp/htdocs/laravel/... there as in past they does in codeigniter?explain it simply and clearly, what is the purpose of using the artisan commands, like php artisan serve that create a host address like localhost:8000 cant we go there in browser simply like localhost/laravelproject?and does composer works offline,without internet access,i mean entering those commands in cmd prompt?simply my concept is not clear with using composer with laravel, clear my concept...thanks
As google said, composer is always for dependencies, not just laravel but in any other framework or libraries, composer is used to automatically download dependencies needed for code to work.
Laravel is based on some packages that are some kind of third-party packages. When you create a project in codeigniter you copy all files needed for project. You can do this in laravel too, but you should have all files that are needed. Now you can download all files manually or just set those files and libraries in a file named composer and let composer do that for you. And even if there are dependencies for libraries that you mention for composer, composer detects them and downloads them too.
When you create laravel project with composer, you can save all files and use them for another project (as I did), and not to use composer again.
Artisan commands are just here to help you. Many of commands that are supported by artisan, are possible to be done by your hand, but artisan is here to help you.
Of course you can use xamp or wamp to host your laravel project, here serve command is another option to serve your project. You do not have to use it (as I never do).
Composer does not have dependencies and it just detects dependencies and downloads them.
Hope that helps.
I have a laravel app and i want to use the pagseguro/php package.
I added it to the composer.json and updated. I can access the main class (PagSeguroPaymentRequest) without a problem.
At some point I have to call this:
PagSeguroConfig::getAccountCredentials();
But it throws an exception. After reading code around I thought on trying to init the library by myself and suddenly everything worked:
PagSeguroLibrary::init();
This method is inside the only php file in source/PagSeguroLibrary/
Shouldn't composer automatically execute this method? What is exactly "loading" a package? Is there anyway to fix this using composer only?
Thank you all.
Shouldn't composer automatically execute this method?
No, it shouldn't. Composer is a package and dependency manager program. It's job is to
Get PHP files into your vendor folder
If using those PHP files means you need other PHP files, get those other PHP files into your vendor folder
Setup things so that class files from the packages are correctly autoloaded in PHP (i.e. no need to require or include stuff yourself)
Composer packages work independent of frameworks. Someone could distribute a laravel service provider via a computer package, or someone could distribute code that doesn't know anything about Laravel. How each composer package works is up to the author (always read the README)
In the case of pagseguro/php, it looks like you're supposed to instantiate a PagSeguroPaymentRequest object which, when autoloaded, will automatically call init. The examples distributed with the package also makes it look like this package was code that predated composer, and still uses many manual includes and requires.
I'd like to know if I can install or use the Laravel PHP framework on any web server without using Composer (PHP package/dependency manager) every time?
I would like to be able to drop my app on to any web server (like a shared server without access to the command line).
If I run composer install the first time (locally), then all the dependencies should be present, correct?
Then, I should be able to drop it onto any server with all of the files (including the vendor directory)?
If you really wanted to, you could do all the work that Composer does manually, but you definitely should not. Installing Composer is easy, it's just a matter of getting the composer.phar file and running commands on it.
You do not need to run Composer on your server as well as locally, once you run composer install or composer update your project will have all its dependencies available and you can just upload it straight to your server.
You cannot install laravel local without composer in your project.
On this site you can download everything what you can download also with the composer build tool. But you do not need a composer installation. Of course laravel is also present there: https://php-download.com/package/laravel/laravel
If you have shared server and you are not able to install composer and run cmd to install a new package or update an existing package.
You can one thing by installing composer on your local machine and install(ex composer require package/name) or update(ex composer update package/name) all the packages, then upload your vendor directory on the server with your code. it will work for you same as in your local environment.
NOTE: I strongly recommend that you should use the Laravel with the composer, it is an important part of laravel and you can try to convince your client to provide a server that supports laravel. Please check the link below and you can find the server requirements. https://laravel.com/docs/5.5#installation
If you don't want to use composer on server then you will have to run composer install/update and download all the libraries locally and then manually upload all those files on the server i.e. Vendor Directory.
In-Case of shared hosting where you can't connect to server with shh there you might have to do that but it will take lot of time to upload all the files on server so I would recommend that you should composer and then download the libraries through composer install/update.
Yes, you can install all project dependencies via composer in your localhost first, and then transfer all the files via FTP to your actual website.
Just download the zip file from github and upload to your htdoc and voilà it will work for you