I have framework wich uses plugins as subdirectories in plugin/ directory. Plugins are git submodules and it works just fine. But some plugins require 3rd party libraries and I want to use Composer ti install them. Also there are dependencies between plugins which could be handled by Composer too.
I tried to use composer, but it will install everything into vendor/ directory, which is wrong because plugins must go into plugin/ directory. There is also core of the framework in core/ and application specific files in app/ directory.
What is the best way to use Composer in this scenario?
There should be a way for Composer to decide which package is a plugin and should be placed in the plugins directory. In composer, there is a special type setting which you should use in that case.
Then you can use a custom installer to install the special plugin types in the plugin directory.
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I've just come across the https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories tool which looks a great way to automatically scan for the vulnerabilities that are in that community-contributed database.
It scans a composer.lock file for packages with vulnerabilities. However, it's made me realise that my understanding of Composer is not what it should be!
I have a project that has a composer.json file that requires a single demo/package. That demo package also has requirements, like demo/dep.
The result of running composer install --no-dev is that I have a composer.lock file which includes:
demo/package version 1.0
demo/dep version 1.2
All good so far, and running symfony security:check /path/to/my/project/composer.lock gives me a green light, no vulnerabilities.
However on close inspection of the files now in my vendor dir, I can see there's a vendor/demo/package/composer.lock file, which contains references to demo/dep at version 1.1 - which has a security vulnerability against it.
As I understand, I have the safer 1.2 version installed - so says my project's composer.lock file, but why is a composer.lock file included with the vendor's package?
Does that mean that the dodgy code is installed somewhere, too? Or can I just simply ignore the composer.lock files if there's a composer.lock file in a dir above it or such? composer show does not list the versions in the nested lock file. Or maybe I should ignore composer.lock files if there's no sibling ./vendor/ dir?
Why not simply inspect your folders to find a vulnerable version? If there was any, you should find a vendor folder within that package, that's where that package could have installed stuff from it's own composer.lock
Usually, only the composer.json of a package is evaluated to install dependencies. If there is a lock file within one package's folder, you should ask the maintainer of that package why this is the case, but for installing dependencies on your system, this does not matter.
Side note: writing "usually" refers to the standard model of installations. I've seen some crude stuff where Composer plugins put other rules in place, but this cannot be said for your project without knowing more about the structure.
I am working on the Laravel project, and intend to use Vue.js as its client-side scripting. When I searched the internet, I found that I had to use the npm install command. My question is if I run the order, will it affect the project I'm working on?
For example, in the directory structure or variable section?
It will change only package.json and /node_modules folder (it will download vue.js last version package into this folder) in your root directory. But it won't affect your existing codebase until you don't use them via importing or accessing it. It is like installing a package with composer, but not using it. The downloaded package will stay in /vendor folder and package name in composer.json, composer.lock
I have never used Composer, but I want to use PHPSpreadsheet package, and it is recommended that Composer is used.
I am on a MAC using XAMPP and Netbeans.
I have installed Composer, and I have run the following command to get and install the PHPSpreadsheet package.
php ../../Composer/composer.phar require phpoffice/phpspreadsheet
I am running this in my project folder, (hence the ../../ to where Composer.phar is located.
This downloads the files into a vendor folder in my project folder.
What should I do then? Do I need to keep it in the Vendor folder, or can I move into a folder of my choice?
Netbeans has Composer options in the menus, but as far as I can see, this is for creating dependencies rather than installing packages.
I know I am totally missing the point of Composer somewhere, but have spent hours just trying to get this work.
Many thanks
You should really start with the docs -> https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md
You have to keep the vendor directory - this is where all dependencies are kept. If you require more packages - then they will be installed in that directory.
After requring the package you have to load it so the PHP will know all the classes. Composer comes with great autolader. It is located by default in vendor/autoload.php. So what you have to do now is to require this file in your project. After that all classes from composer packages will be loaded automaticaly each time you use them in the code :)
I hope this will help you with this great tool. Cheers.
I have used godep and vendored all my dependencies in vendor/ directory. Go build is working fine as well. However how can I be sure that all my dependencies are vendored?
Is there any command that can make sure of that?
My CI service (Travis is the one I use) lets me know. Because my test build will fail if the deps aren't available.
You should be using a CI service anyway, and then you get that benefit for free.
I use govendor to manage the dependencies, which has a status option. Here's some of the commands with govendor:
init Create the "vendor" folder and the "vendor.json" file.
list List and filter existing dependencies and packages.
add Add packages from $GOPATH.
update Update packages from $GOPATH.
remove Remove packages from the vendor folder.
status Lists any packages missing, out-of-date, or modified locally.
fetch Add new or update vendor folder packages from remote repository.
sync Pull packages into vendor folder from remote repository with revisions
from vendor.json file.
migrate Move packages from a legacy tool to the vendor folder with metadata.
Specifically, you'd do govendor status to check if there are missing packages.
If you decide to use govendor, you can get started by doing:
go get github.com/kardianos/govendor
govendor migrate (which will migrate from godeps to govendor)
Also, you mentioned in a comment that your deploying to Heroky, here's some documentation from them on govendor
I have a PHP project, that uses composer for it's PHP dependencies and bower for it's front end dependencies. So basically I have a directory structure that looks something like this (a simplified version obviously):
/app
/bower_components
/public
/vendor
/foo
/bar
/src
bower.json
composer.json
bower.json
composer.json
gulpfile.js
As you can see, the php dependency has some front end dependencies of it's own, that are also managed with bower. However, when I run bower install from the root of my app, the bower file from inside my foo/bar dependency is ignored.
I do not want to build my front-end dependencies inside foo/bar in advance and just include those in my app using gulp, because foo/bar may have overlapping dependencies with my app (like jQuery or Bootstrap or something) and I obviously do not want to include those twice. And I also would prefer bower throwing an error when there are version conflicts for overlapping dependencies, rather then having to find out the hard way.
Ideally all my front end dependencies would end up in my root bower_components directory, both those from my app's bower.json, as well as those from vendor/foo/bar/bower.json. This way I can have gulp compile all those into a single (or probably a few) .js and .css file.
So the question is, is that possible? Can I have bower look at other bower.json files inside sub directories? Or is there a recommended way to automatically merge multiple bower.json files before bower is ran?
I have spent the last hour scouring the web for a good solution to this problem, but I can't seem to come up with anything. (If you know of a good blog post or resource on this topic, please do share!) All google gives me are some basic bower tutorials, that are not very helpful here. Am I really the first one to run into this problem, or is there something fundamentally wrong in the way I am trying to tackle the issue at hand?
One way to tackle this (and a way Symfony CMF uses now) is to create bower packages for your PHP dependencies. This means you create a front-end bower package from your bundle, the package only contains the bower.json file with the dependencies.
Now, in your application's bower.json file, you can specify these "virtual" bower packages as requirements and run bower install. For instance:
{
"dependencies": {
"php-foobar": "^1.3"
}
}
The composer plugins composer-extra-assets and composer-assets-plugin allow adding bower dependencies to composer.json.
composer-assets-plugin is implemented in pure php and turns bower packages into composer packages.
composer-extra-assets calls the "real" bower behind the scenes. It is installed (including the required nodejs) automatically though if you don't have it on your system.
Disclaimer: I'm the author of composer-extra-assets.