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Roman Dornhof
Roman Dornhof

Reputation: 199

Add local Composer to PATH

I have installed Composer locally only for one Laravel project

~/phpstorm/myproject/composer.phar

and didn't have any problem till I tried to create a new Laravel project, then I got an error:

Could not open input file: composer.phar

I tried to add the .phar file directly to the PATH, but it doesn't seem to change anything.

PATH=~/phpstorm/myproject/composer.phar:$PATH

Does somebody know how I could manage this problem without installing Composer globally? In the Internet I only found this easiest kind of solution, but it doesn't suit me, alas.

Thanks for your proposals in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5406

Answers (3)

sparkwatson
sparkwatson

Reputation: 121

Another, easy option would be to create an alias for it in your shell

eg for bash:

alias composer='php ~/phpstorm/myproject/composer.phar'

Upvotes: 1

bretanac93
bretanac93

Reputation: 627

Change the name from composer.phar to composer by this command: mv composer.phar composer, give it execution permissions by running the following: chmod 0755 composer or chmod a+x composer, and put the current path to the PATH env variable in your .bashrc or .zshrc file, restart your terminal and it should work, or you can always install it globally. Bests! ;)

Upvotes: 2

Mauran Muthiah
Mauran Muthiah

Reputation: 1229

You don't need to add composer to your path unless you want to use it globally. You can just do

php composer.phar

Upvotes: 0

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