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Hidden Gems of Composer

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PHP Composer Tooling
Hari KT
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Hari KT
Freelancer | Founder of Tripti and Tanvish | Maintainer of Aura for PHP, created by Paul M Jones
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I hope everyone in the PHP world is aware of composer the dependency management tool that gives an end to Pear.

We can look into some of the hidden gems of composer. Some of them are already documented in the composer docs.

Bug Fixing :
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Documented over Loading a package from a VCS repository

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{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/igorw/monolog"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "monolog/monolog": "dev-bugfix"
    }
}

The above example assume you have pushed your code to github. But you can also make use of the local directory.

Assume you are organizing your code something like

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home
└── github.com
    └── harikt
        ├── Aura.Router
        ├── Aura.Web
        └── monolog

Now on your project you could make use of the patches you are working on the local directory without pushing it to github.

Note : You should commit the changes though.

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{
    "minimum-stability":"dev",
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "/home/github.com/harikt/monolog"            
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "monolog/monolog": "dev-bugfix"
    }
}

And you can also disable packagist for fast look up.

Experimenting your own packages
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I did add packages in packagist for testing. This is really a wrong way to do, you are adding more packages that makes other people’s life hard to find a useful package.

What I learned is, you can do in a different way. See docs under Package

So your composer.json will look something like this.

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{
    "minimum-stability":"dev",
    "repositories": [        
        {
            "type": "package",
            "package": {
                "name": "harikt/experiments",
                "version": "3.1.7",               
                "source": {
                    "type": "git",
                    "url": "/home/github.com/harikt/experiments",
                    "reference": "master"
                },
                "autoload": {
                    "classmap": ["libs/"]
                }
            }
        }
    ],
    "require": {        
        "harikt/experiments": "3.1.*"
    }
}

That’s for now.

Happy PhPing!

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