I am currently trying to install Omnipay into my Codeigniter project. I am stuck on windows because I do not have ssh access to the box where this needs to run on. So far I have gotten a new directory in the project root that is named "vendor" and it contains a lot of empty directories referring to Symfony (for what reason is beyond me).
Then I get a runtime exception that I need to enable the openssl extension in my php to download the necessary files and this is where I am stuck at. I don't run WAMP on my computer and I just use the php.exe I downloaded to work with netbeans.
Isn't there an easier way to get omnipay to run? Like just download the files from somewhere and plug them into my project like normal? It seems to be an aweful lot of headache to get a simple library to run in my CI project.
Please forgive my ignorance towards composer but I currently see no benefit of using it for this particular project.
You can "just download" the files here: https://github.com/omnipay/common/archive/master.zip
The problem is, Omnipay depends on Guzzle (an HTTP library), and Guzzle depends on some Symfony components. So you will spend the rest of the day downloading dependencies and making sure you have all the necessary files. That is the problem Composer solves for you.
I don't have any experience running Composer on Windows, but I would start here:
http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-windows
Using the Installer
This is the easiest way to get Composer set up on your machine.
Download and run Composer-Setup.exe, it will install the latest
Composer version and set up your PATH so that you can just call
composer from any directory in your command line.
Once you have Composer installed, you should simply be able to make a file named composer.json in your project root, with the following contents:
{
"require": {
"omnipay/omnipay": "~2.0"
}
}
Then use the Command Prompt and cd to your project's directory, and run composer update to download the Omnipay files and all their dependencies.
Related
I am attempting to install the Microsoft Azure Storage PHP Client Libraries for the first time and am encountering difficulties. I am following the instructions found at https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-php but I don't find them sufficiently clear. Step 1 under the Install via Composer header says,
Create a file named composer.json in the root of your project and add the following code to it:
{
"require": {
"microsoft/azure-storage-blob": "",
"microsoft/azure-storage-table": "",
"microsoft/azure-storage-queue": "",
"microsoft/azure-storage-file": ""
}
}
There is already a composer.json file in the azure-storage-php directory created by the
git clone https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-php.git
command. Am I supposed to overwrite the existing composer.json file with the Step 1 instructions? Also, how does my PHP program reference the necessary libraries? I understand I will have use statements like the following code in my PHP program:
use MicrosoftAzure\Storage\Blob\BlobRestProxy;
use MicrosoftAzure\Storage\Common\Exceptions\ServiceException;
use MicrosoftAzure\Storage\Blob\Models\ListBlobsOptions;
use MicrosoftAzure\Storage\Blob\Models\CreateContainerOptions;
use MicrosoftAzure\Storage\Blob\Models\PublicAccessType;
You may rightly discern that I am new to composer installs. It seems to me that the instructions found in https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-php are not sufficiently clear for a composer novice. Thanks for the help.
I have figured out my problem and it has to do with how I read the installation instructions in https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-php. There are several bold subtitles and I read Install via Composer as a continuation of Download Source Code when in fact Install via Composer is independent of Download Source Code. Most technical people are familiar with the software installation paradigm of downloading the software and then installing and that is how I thought this was to work. However, the instructions contained in Install via Composer can be followed without performing any of the instructions found in Download Source Code. That is how I got this to work by beginning the installation at Install via Composer and ignoring the previous. I am sure an experience composer user would have known what to do, but for a composer novice I think these instruction could be better written.
I'm using the mPDF library for PHP, but the current release is not compatible with PHP 7. Various issue threads on Github suggest using the current Dev version; but it appears that simply downloading the Zip file excludes important files (including the /vendors/ directory and the autoload.php file.)
The developer seems impatient with people asking this question, and actually told somebody "go ask on StackExchange". So... here I am.
How the heck do I download the entire package from the development branch?
As stated in the comments, the package you are trying to use is being installed through Composer
Install Composer to your machine if you did not do it previously
Unzip file to directory of your choice
Navigate to such directory in command line / terminal
Run composer install
(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 wonder if someone can help me. I've been handed in a Cake PHP app that I need to 1) add minor changes 2) deploy. I've never really worked with Cake before and was wondering whether do I need to anything in order for it to work?
For instance, With a Node app, you need to install modules npm install. With a Rails app you'll likely need to install the gems bundle install.
Is there something similar with Cake? I've set the localhost server, but when I try to access the url I get all sort of errors. Some I've fixed (missing environment settings which I just override the Redis host and port). The latest one is:
{
"exception":{
"class":"MissingControllerException",
"code":404,
"message":"Controller class Controller could not be found.",
"file":"\/Library\/WebServer\/Documents\/php\/oompbe\/vendors\/cakephp\/lib\/Cake\/Routing\/Dispatcher.php",
"line":154,
"trace":[
"#0 \.../app\/webroot\/index.php(109): Dispatcher->dispatch(Object(CakeRequest), Object(CakeResponse))",
"#1 {main}"
]
}
}
PS: What's up with all the crazy \/\/?
PPS: Can I find out the version Cake I'm running?
CakePHP is just php. As most properly done php apps these days it comes with composer. I recommend you to read at least the basics of it's manual. Composer is an awesome tool.
git clone <repo>
cd <reponame>
composer install
If you start a new Cake application the official documentation tells you how to this as well:
composer create-project --prefer-dist cakephp/app [app_name]
If you want to automate things further composer provides you callback scripts. They'll allow you to automate tasks, basically trigger commands, after different actions. This is pretty useful to build assets after a composer update for example. I recommend you to not put lots of commands into that section but instead have dedicated script files you trigger by the callbacks.
Can I find out the version Cake I'm running?
If installed via composer it is usually in vendor/cakephp/cakephp/version.txt. Check the content of that file.
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