Composer : how to add a dependency without network connection? - php

Question

My profesionnal network block internet access. Some month ago I download the Silex framework from an archive (which contains composer.json file) and the composer.phar one's, then I transfer them on my desktop throught HDD.
My composer.json that I customized:
{
"name": "user/silex",
"require": {
"silex/silex": "1.2"
, "twig/twig": ">=1.8,<2.0-dev"
, "doctrine/dbal": "2.2.*"
, "symfony/security": "~2.3"
, "symfony/security": "~2.3"
},
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"Portal\\": "src/"
}
}
}
It works fine, my autoload customization too.
Today I want to add the monolog/monolog package, so I manually import it from an other computer.
I place it into my vendor folder, I add the following line to my composer.json file:
, "monolog/monolog": ">=1.0.0"
I run on the console:
php composer.phar dumpautoload
It outputs:
Generating autoload files
Then it stop without error, but the monolog namespace doesn't appear into my /vendor/composer/autoload_*.php files.
What did I miss?

Answer 1

Thanks to edmondscommerce's comment I found the solution:
I update my main composer.json file with an artifact respository (and I disable the packagist one):
{
"name": "user/silex",
"repositories": [
{
"type": "artifact",
"url": "artifact/"
}, {
"packagist": false
}
], "require": {
"silex/silex": "1.2"
, "twig/twig": ">=1.8,<2.0-dev"
, "monolog/monolog": "1.*"
, "doctrine/dbal": "2.2.*"
, "symfony/security": "~2.3"
},
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"Portal\\": "src/"
}
}
}
Then I put a folder called artifact according to the url put in the composer.json file.
I create into this folder a zip called monolog-monolog-1.8.zip with the library I want to add.
Then just launch a composer update command!
Be carefull, zip's root must contain a composer.json file, and this composer.json file must contain a version!

Answer 2

If you do not want to create a custom repository, you can also run composer install (or composer update) on a copy that is on a network-connected computer. Then you can copy over the newly added and extracted component into the vendor folder on the machine without internet access. Note that you also need to copy vendor/composer/installed.json to let composer know that the new package has been installed. Once you have copied all these files, you can run composer install on the machine without internet access and it will not try to install anything and dump autoload files.