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Description

This cookbook provides an easy way to install Composer, a dependency manager for PHP.

More information available at http://getcomposer.org/.

Requirements

⚠ This cookbook does not install PHP! Please make sure PHP is installed before this cookbook is included, e.g. by using the php cookbook.

Cookbooks:

No dependencies.

Platforms:

Attributes

Resources

This cookbook includes resources for managing a Composer project and for installing Composer packages globally:

composer_project

Actions

ActionDescription
:installReads the composer.json file from the current directory, resolves the dependencies, and installs them into project directory - this is the default action
:requireCreate composer.json file using specified package and version and installs it with the dependencies.
:updateGets the latest versions of the dependencies and updates the composer.lock file
:dump_autoloadUpdates the autoloader without having to go through an install or update (eg. because of new classes in a classmap package)
:removeRemoves package from composer.json and uninstalls it

Properties

NameDescription
project_dirThe directory where your project's composer.json can be found (name attribute)
packageThe package to require or remove when using those actions
versionThe version of the package to require or remove when using those actions, default *.*.*. Be careful when uninstalling, the version has to match the installed package!
vendorCan be used to combine package and version, deprecated!
devInstall packages listed in require-dev, default false
quietDo not output any message, default true
optimize_autoloaderOptimize PSR0 packages to use classmaps, default false
prefer_distuse the dist installation method
prefer_sourceuse the source installation method
bin_diroverwrites the composer bin dir
userthe user to use when executing the composer commands
groupthe group to use when executing the composer commands
umaskthe umask to use when executing the composer commands
environmentA hash of environment variables that will be available when running composer

Examples

# Install the project dependencies
composer_project "/path/to/project" do
  dev false
  quiet true
  prefer_dist false
  action :install
end

# Require the package in the project dir
composer_project "/path/to/project" do
  package 'vendor/package'
  version '*.*.*'
  dev false
  quiet true
  prefer_dist false
  action :require
end

# Update the project dependencies
composer_project "/path/to/project" do
  dev false
  quiet true
  action :update
end

# Dump-autoload in the project dir
composer_project "/path/to/project" do
  dev false
  quiet true
  action :dump_autoload
end

# Remove the package in the project dir
composer_project "/path/to/project" do
  package 'vendor/package'
  action :remove
end

composer_install_global

Actions

ActionDescription
:installInstalls the package in the preferred global composer directory, putting binary symlinks in the preferred global binary directory (see attributes)
:updateGets the latest versions of the dependencies and updates the composer.lock file for the globally installed composer packages
:removeRemoves package from the global composer.json and uninstalls it

Attribute parameters

PropertyDescription
packageThe package to install or remove, name_attribute
versionThe version of the package to install or remove when using those actions, default *.*.*. Be careful when uninstalling, the version has to match the installed package!
install_dirthe directory in which to make the global installation, default: see the attributes
bin_dirthe directory in which to make the symlinks to the binaries, default: see the attributes
devInstall packages listed in require-dev, default false
quietDo not output any message, default true
optimize_autoloaderOptimize PSR0 packages to use classmaps, default false
prefer_distuse the dist installation method
prefer_sourceuse the source installation method

Examples

# Install a package globally
composer_install_global "package" do
  version '~4.1'
  action :install
end

# Update the package
composer_install_global "package" do
  action :update
end

# Remove the package from the global installation
composer_install_global "package" do
  action :remove
end

Usage

  1. Make sure PHP is installed (e.g. include the php::default recipe)
  2. Set custom values for any attributes in a wrapper recipe / node data
  3. Include composer::default in your wrapper recipe / run list
  4. Use composer_project and composer_install_global in your recipes

References

License and Authors

Author: David Joos development@davidjoos.com Copyright: 2016-2022, David Joos

Author: David Joos david.joos@escapestudios.com Author: Escape Studios Development dev@escapestudios.com Copyright: 2012-2015, Escape Studios

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