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Hidden Gems of Composer

Thu, 29 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

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

{
    "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.

Installing an Aura Framework Project via Composer

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In this tutorial I am showing how to install aura framework project v2 via composer.

composer create-project -s beta aura/framework-project path-to-project

Aura.Framework_Project helps you to build web and cli applications.

If you need only web based application then Aura.Web_Project is what you need.

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If you need only cli, then Aura.Cli_Project helps you.

Composer Support for ProcessWire, Part 2

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

In my earlier post I mentioned about adding a composer.json in the root of the github repo.

Sometimes you may see a non composer.json repo or some times people reject it, you still can do like the below.

<?php
{
    "minimum-stability": "dev",
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "package",
            "package": {
                "name": "ryancramerdesign/process-export-profile",
                "version": "1.0.0",
                "source": {
                    "url": "https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessExportProfile",
                    "type": "git",
                    "reference": "master"
                },
                "type": "pw-module",
                "require": {
                    "hari/pw-module": "~1.0"
                }
            }
        }
    ],    
    "require": {
        "ryancramerdesign/process-export-profile": "1.0.0"
    }
}

And run

Composer Support for ProcessWire Modules

Sat, 16 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I am a huge fan of composer. PW ( ProcessWire) is missing one of the good parts of composer. So here is a new installer to install the 3rd party modules of PW via composer.

If you have created a module for PW, what you need to do is add a composer.json file in your github repo and add it to packagist. An example composer.json is

{
    "name": "vendor/package-name",
    "type": "pw-module",
    "description": "Your module what it does",
    "keywords": [ "keywords", "comma", "seprated"],
    "homepage": "https://github.com/harikt/Assets",
    "license": "BSD-2-Clause",
    "authors": [
        {
            "name": "Assets Contributors",
            "homepage": "https://github.com/harikt/Assets/contributors"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.3.0",
        "hari/pw-module": "~1.0"
    }
}

Note the minimum requirement is PHP 5.3 for composer is 5.3 .

Aura System Released Beta 5

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday Paul M Jones tagged the beta5 for the system repo.

So you can download the system from http://auraphp.com/system/downloads/

via composer
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Creating aura framework based projects has been made easy with composer. You can run

php composer.phar create-project -s dev aura/system your-directory

What it does is almost similar to git clone and installing via git as below