I am working on a PHP development project that includes Composer. I am relatively new at this so I thank you in advance for your patience with my question, and ask that you reply in as simple of language as possible.
I am trying to run the following command in terminal:
php composer.phar dump-autoload -o
I am getting the following error:
Could not open input file: composer.phar
This is the file path to my composer.phar folder:
/Users/administrator/Dropbox/2016/2016ProjectFiles/2016ProjectsWeb/GG/authentication/composer.phar
I have tried several ways to provide the file path, including the following:
$cd /Users/administrator/Dropbox/2016/2016ProjectFiles/2016ProjectsWeb/GG/authentication/composer.phar dump-autoload -o
...and...
$cd ../authentication/composer.phar dump-autoload -o
It is entirely possible/likely that my syntax is wrong or there is a stupid simple solution that I just don't know. I just need to be able to run file commands on composer.phar from terminal. Any help is much appreciated!
I figured it out. Here is the answer in case any fellow newbies run into this same conundrum. First, enter the following command into terminal to tell it where to look for Composer:
cd ~/[YOUR FOLDER NAME]
I learned that "~/" is a stand in for your "Users/Username" folders, so if your version of composer is nested beyond that you'll have to write out the file path yourself. For example, if your file is in "Dropbox" in a folder called "Projects" then your first command would look like this...
cd ~/Dropbox/Projects/[YOUR FOLDER NAME]
Then, you'll see your terminal command line change. For example, before I ran the command above, mine looked like...
Admin-MacBook-Pro:~ administrator$
...afterward it looked like...
Admin-MacBook-Pro:authentication administrator$
"authentication" is the folder where I saved Composer. YAY! So then I was able to type in my request:
php composer.phar dump-autoload -o
And it (finally!) returned "Generating optimized autoload files". So there you have it. I hope I saved you a couple of hours staring at the terminal window.
Thank you, Tomáš Votruba for your suggestions!
You have downloaded composer.phar file successfully. Great job. Now the second steps is to make ti globally accessible like php or git.
This article about installing composer in Mac describe as follows:
Quoting Running Composer section
Run commads:
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/
vim ~/.bash_profile
Now add to .bash_profile:
alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer.phar"
And you're done.
Run composer anywhere you need.
So simply put. I did an in-place update from 10.10.5 to 10.11.1 recently and just discovered that my composer package manager is no longer working.
I've tried a number of solutions and have it installed into the correct directory, but my alias 'composer' which was set globally is now not able to find the composer file.
Following the steps as always
First, Download
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Then move
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/
Then update bash_profile
vim ~/.bash_profile
Finally add alias
alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer.phar"
And my end result, when calling composer is this
Could not open input file: /usr/local/bin/composer/
Any ideas why this might happen?
Found the answer by talking to someone on reddit.
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First off, try going to the composer file in /usr/local/bin and double-click it. It should open up in a new Terminal window. This should at least confirm that the file can be executed.
Second, you shouldn't need to have an alias to use composer. You merely point your path to it like this:
export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"
If you have any other path variables you'll just attach a colon to the end of it like so:
export PATH="/usr/local/php5/bin:~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"
Hope this helps.
I'm following this tutorial. I need to install Laravel but I can not get pass through Composer.
Running a line like curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php is relatively easy.
I also moved it: sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer. I have added the PATH (export PATH="$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin”) by editing my .bash_profile, but no results. I can't get it to work.
Is there anyone who knows how to install composer properly?
Did you execute command?
export ~/.bash_profile
after editing this file (also reboot can be as alternative)?
Of course as quick hack you can use either php ~/.composer/vendor/bin/composer
or write hardcoded alias in ~/.bash_profile:
alias composer="~/.composer/vendor/bin/composer"
and after editing do not forget to execute export ~/.bash_profile
also check permissions if your current user can execute this file
I really appreciate all the answers above. They all helped to a final answer.
It seems that creating an alias inside the .bash_profile with the right path was solution. As of right now I can type "composer" and it will run.
The route points directly to where my composer.phar is currently installed.
A reboot was necessary as well.
alias composer="usr/local/bin/composer/composer.phar"
I am new to symfony2 and reading symblog. In third chapter while trying with data-fixtures I tried the command:
php composer.phar update
but I got the error:
Could not open input file: composer.phar
So I googled a little and tried
php composer.phar install
but still getting the same error. So please guide how to deal with this composer to install new extentions or bundles like data-fixtures in symfony2 using wamp.
If you followed instructions like these:
https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
Which tell you to do the following:
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Then it's likely that you, like me, ran those commands and didn't read the next part of the page telling you to stop referring to composer.phar by its full name and abbreviate it as an executable (that you just renamed with the mv command). So this:
$ php composer.phar update friendsofsymfony/elastica-bundle
Becomes this:
$ composer update friendsofsymfony/elastica-bundle
I had the same problem on Windows and used a different solution. I used the Composer_Setup.exe installation file supplied by the composer website and it does a global install.
After installing, make sure your PATH variable points to the directory where composer.phar is stored. This is usually C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin (ProgramData might be a hidden directory). It goes without saying, but also be sure that the PHP executable is also in your PATH variable.
You can then simply call
composer install
instead of
php composer.phar install
Background
It is helpful to know that there are two ways to install (and use) Composer: locally as a file in your project directory, or globally as a system-wide executable.
Installing Composer locally simply means that you are downloading a file (composer.phar - which is a PHP Archive) into your project directory. You will have to download it for every project that requires Composer.
Like a regular PHP file that you want to execute on the command line, you will have to run it with PHP:
php composer.phar update
Which basically tells the php executable to run the file composer.phar with update as argument.
However, if you install it globally, you can make composer itself executable, so you can call it without php (and don't have to download it for every project). In other words, you can use composer like this:
composer update
Since you are executing php composer.phar update, and you are getting the error Could not open input file: composer.phar, you probably don't have composer.phar in your current directory.
Solution
If you have Composer installed globally, simply run composer update instead of php composer.phar update.
If you don't have Composer installed yet, download the PHAR using the following command:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
This will download the installer and run it using php. The installer will download the actual Composer PHAR to your current working directory, and make it executable.
To install Composer globally (I recommend this), copy the file to a location in your PATH. The exact location differs per operating system and setup, see https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#globally for more information.
Personally, I prefer to install Composer in my home directory so I don't need sudo to install or update the composer executable (which can be a security risk). As I'm on Linux, I use the following command:
mv composer.phar ~/.local/bin/composer
If anyone else came this low on the page and still didn't find a working answer (like I did), use this:
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
$ alias composer='/usr/local/bin/composer.phar'
$ composer --version
et voila! A working composer :-)
To solve this issue the first thing you need to do is to get the last version of composer :
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
I recommend you to move the composer.phar file to a global “bin” directoy, in my case (OS X) the path is:
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
than you need to create an alias file for an easy access
alias composer='/usr/local/bin/composer.phar'
If everything is ok, now it is time to verify our Composer version:
composer --version
Let's make composer great again.
I found this worked as I did not have curl installed. On Windows 8 with XAMPP installed. It will add it to your local build I use .gitignore to avoid the repo
php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php
I got it from here: https://getcomposer.org/download/
This worked for me:
composer install
Without
php composer install
Run the following in command line:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Yesterday I was trying to install Yii2 framework on Windows 10 and I have same problem(Could not open input file: composer.phar) running this command:
php composer.phar create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced advanced 2.0.9
Issue is composer.phr file is not in current directory,you need to give full path composer.phr like
php C:\ProgramData\Composer\bin\composer.phar create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced advanced 2.0.9
Or you can create yii2 project using this command:
composer create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced advanced 2.0.9
Or
composer.phar create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced advanced 2.0.9
I had the same issue. It is solved when I made composer globally available. Now I am able to tun the commands from any where in the folder.
composer update
composer require "samplelibraryyouwant"
Use this :
php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php
Hi friends, follow the steps to fix this issue in MAC OS
Step 1: first run the command in Terminal with your project directory
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Step 2: Move the composer.phar in your project directory
$ mv composer.phar /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/bashrushAPI/composer.phar
Step 3: Setup alias the composer
$ alias composer='/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/bashrushAPI/composer.phar'
Step 4: Check the composer version now
$ composer --version
Composer version 1.7.2 2018-08-16 16:57:12
Step 5: Confirm the project folders and file placed on bellow
$ ls
CONTRIBUTING.md docker-compose.yml templates
README.md logs tests
composer.json phpunit.xml vendor
composer.lock public
composer.phar src
Step 6: Now update composer
$ composer.phar update
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Nothing to install or update
Generating autoload files
Step 7: Run your sample project
$ php composer.phar start
php -S localhost:8080 -t public
[Thu Sep 27 03:16:11 2018] ::1:51177 [200]: /
[Thu Sep 27 03:16:11 2018] ::1:51178 [404]: /favicon.ico - No such file or directory
Easy answer, navigate to the directory where you already have the composer.json file that you want to run (ideally your project folder) then download composer into the same folder, then instantly run the install command like so:
php composer.phar install
This will automatically find the composer.json and run your required scripts. Good luck. This stuff is a breeze for terminal wizards and totally bizarre to the rest of us
I am using windows 8.0. In my case to install or update i just use composer install or something else instead of php composer.phar. This worked for me
like
composer require google/apiclient:1.*
To googlers who installed composer via HomeBrew:
make a symbolic link for /usr/local/bin/composer
ln -s /usr/local/bin/composer /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
I got this error "Could not open input file: composer.phar" while installing Yii2 using below mentioned command.
php composer.phar create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic
Solutions which worked for me was, I changed the command to
composer create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic
I hope it help!
your composer.phar should be placed in above way.
For windows, I made composer.cmd and used the below text:
php c:\programs\php\composer.phar %*
where composer.phar is installed and c:\programs\php\ is added to my path.
Not sure why this isn't done automatically.
For Windows10 Pro, Following steps fix the issue. select properties check the Unblock program option. run the installer, run the command CMD with Admin rights. At command promp run composer --version to make sure it is globally installed. you should be able to now run composer require drush/drush This is for drush dependency using composer.
Command like this :
composer.phar require intervention/image
error: composer.phar: command not found
I solved the problem by following this process
i set the composer globally and renamed composer.phar to composer then run this command composer require intervention/image . and now it's working fine
Just open cmd as Administrator and go into your project folder and check it is working or not using composer command.
The above error is because of the composer is not accessible globally.
So you need to run "cmd" as Administrator.
This is working fine for me.
If you are using Ubuntu/Linux and you are trying to run
php composer.phar require intervention/image on your command line.
Use sudo composer require intervention/image instead. This will give you want you are looking for.
I had an issue getting a package.json's script to run composer dumpautoload.
I had the file /usr/local/bin/composer.phar, and also the file ~/.bash_profile (on OSX) contained:
alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer.phar"
This allowed composer to work from the command line, but it didn't allow scripts to execute composer.
The fix was this:
$ cd /usr/local/bin
$ mv composer.phar composer
$ sudo chmod +x composer // +x allows the file to be executable, such as by CLI scripts
But that yielded this error Could not open input file: /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
The fix was to update ~/.bash_profile (sudo nano ~/.bash_profile), and change the composer alias to:
alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer"
# ie: `.phar` extension removed
Now everything is behaving as expected.
Your composer.phar must be in Source files. I had same problem and I just cut my composer.phar into mine framework-standard-edition folder, where is my whole strong textproject.
if the composer is already install all you need is to know where the composer.phar file is (its directory) after that you move to your symfony project where you have the composer.json and from that directory you execute your composer.phar file. In windows here is what you have to do.
symfony project directory_where_composer.json_is>php the_directory_where_composer.phar_is/composer update
That's all
use two steps .
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo php composer.phar update
You can do
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
The -sS flag meaning don't show progress, do show errors
and then
php composer.phar install
from:
How do I get cURL to not show the progress bar?
https://packagist.org/
I've reach to this problem when trying to install composer on a Window 7 machine from http://getcomposer.org/download page. As there was an existing compose version (provided by acquia Dev Desktop tool) the installation fails and the only chance was to fix this issue manually. (or to remove Dev Desktop tool composer).
Anyway the error message is quite straightforward (Could not open input file: composer.phar), we should then tell the system where the file is located.
Edit composer.bat file and should look like:
#SET PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\DevDesktop\php5_4;%PATH%
php.exe composer.phar %*
See that composer.phar doesn´t have a file path. When standing in a different folder than the one where composer.phar is located the system won´t be able to find it. So, just complete the composer.phar file path:
#SET PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\DevDesktop\php5_4;;%PATH%
SET composerScript=composer.phar
php.exe "%~dp0%composerScript%" %*
Reopen your window console and that should do the trick.
EDIT: this has an issue because it always uses %~dp0%composerScript%
folder as composer execution. Then all configurations are done in that
folder (besides standing on your current project folder) and not in your project folder.
So far I haven't found a was to make a manual composer installation to
work globally on Windows. Perhaps you should go ahead with composer for windows installation mentioned above.
Do not access the composer by
composer composer.pher install
use
composer install
You can just try this command if you're already installed the Composer :
composer update
or if you want add some bundle to your composer try this :
composer require "/../"
I am trying to setup my first laravel project. I am running XAMPP for Linux (LAMPP) and I installed composer in /opt/lampp/bin/php.
I then cd /opt/lampp/htdocs
I then run: /opt/lampp/bin/php composer.phar create-project laravel/laravel new_proj --prefer-dist
Everything seems to be going great for the install then I get
Script php artisan optimize handling the post-install-cmd event returned with an error
[Runtime Exception]
Error Output: sh: 1: php: not found
I have PHP 5.4.
I think I understand the error but I don't know Laravel well enough to solve this. I have searched for this and can't seem to find an answer.
Also I can't seem to find a good starting point for trying to install this on XAMPP for Linux (LAMPP). Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Problem was that I did not specify
/opt/lampp/bin
in my Path so it could not find PHP and more specifically it could not find the version of PHP that I was using in LAMPP. So I added
Path=$PATH:/opt/lampp/bin
to my ~/.bashrc file then I was able to successfully install laravel. Next issue that came up after that was setting permissions on the appropriate folders.
Permissions Problem, See Below:
Set permission for your project folder: sudo chmod 755 -R laravel_proj_name
Set permission for your project storage folder:
sudo chmod o+w -R laravel_proj_name/app/storage
Refresh Page, Good to Go!
I think the problem is that the PHP CLI binary is not in your path. Try adding it to your path or putting a symbolic link into /usr/bin or some other appropriate place.