Installing CakePHP with Composer

Composer is great, but for me still hard to configure. This is nice post to explain how to set up CakePHP itself, but what about plugins, for example your AssetComporess plugin. How would you write composer.json to get CakePHP and AssetComporess as well… and configuration? Having AssetCompress in Vendor folder instead of Plugin folder seems to be problem.

Luboš AssetCompress should work similarly to DebugKit. See here

The composer installer actually knows where to put CakePHP plugins ;)

Hi Mark, thanks for taking the time to post this. I receive an ‘Invalid PEAR package. package.xml defines file that is not located inside the tarball.’ error. I got it to work by specifying ’2.3.2’ rather than ’2.3.3’; it seems there’s something awry with the 2.3.3 package. I’ll create a LightHouse ticket, but I thought I’d post this here for others.

Hi and thanks for this clear and simple how-to.

I suppose that I should also update my .gitignore file to add “app/Vendor/” and “app/Plugin/” to the ignore list ?

This is awesome, however there’s one additional issue which I just spent the last half hour debugging.. The problem lies with the `EmailConfig` class, which is not handled by `App::load()` but rather manually loaded. Before it’s loaded though, `CakeEmail` checks whether `class_exists(‘EmailConfig’)` is true; which causes the Composer autoloader to start looking for it.

At this point it’s basically a gamble which one it’s going to load: the one in `Config/email.php` or the one in `CakeEmailTest.php` in the core’s test suite. On my PC it loads the former – so no problem. On my colleague’s PC it loads the latter though, leaving him with a vague “Class PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase could not be found” fatal error.

My solution at this point is to manually include `email.php` in bootstrap, as to prevent the autoloader from being fired at all.

Mark, Elte,

By manually including `email.php` in bootstrap, the core `Network/Email/CakeEmail` test fails when trying to declare the `EmailConfig` class a second time.

The solutions I was able to find were:

- Symlink `app/config/EmailConfig.php` to `app/Config/email.php` and adding the `EmailConfig` class to `App::$paths` by adding `App::uses(‘EmailConfig’, ‘Config’)` to bootstrap.

- Rename the `email.php` file to `EmailConfig.php` and add it to `App::$paths` the same way as the previous solution.

I opted for the symlink solution in order to make sure it doesn’t break any calls to `config(‘email’)` in other places than in `CakeEmail.php`.

In both cases, the `EmailConfig` class only gets declared once when running the `CakeEmail` test.

Sorry, forgot to also mention that I needed to also re-define ‘CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH’ in `app/webroot/test.php` just like in `app/webroot/index.php`.

i will be back for more articles like this :)

To run tests from the command line, I also had to change /Console/cake.php, lines 24 / 25 to this:

$root = dirname(dirname(FILE));
ini_set(‘include_path’, $root . $ds . ‘Vendor’ . $ds . ‘pear-pear.cakephp.org’ . $ds . ‘CakePHP’ . PATH_SEPARATOR . ini_get(‘include_path’));

Even when I reregisterd the Cake Autoloader, I got Autoloading conflicts when using the auth Component, because of the Models Group, User and Product are defined a second time in Cake/Test/Case/Model/models.php

I resolved the issue by using a composer hook script and deleting the mapping within composers autoload_classmap

composer.json
….
“scripts”: { “post-autoload-dump”: [ “./composer_fix_autoload.sh” ] },
….

composer_fix_autoload.sh #!/bin/bash
mv vendors/composer/autoload_classmap.php vendors/composer/autoload_classmap.php.bak
sed ‘/CakePHP\/Cake\/Test\/Case\/Model\/models\.php/d’ vendors/composer/autoload_classmap.php.ori > vendors/composer/autoload_classmap.php

I hope it helpes somebody else, too

Does it make sense to remove the whole cake tree out of the composer autoloader, because we still use the cake autoloader for these classes?

sed ‘/CakePHP\/Cake/d’ vendors/composer/autoload_classmap.php.ori > vendors/composer/autoload_classmap.php

Hi, i’m having an issue when i’m trying to run:
php composer.phar install

Problem 1 – The requested package pear-cakephp/cakephp could not be found in any versi
on, there may be a typo in the package name.

Potential causes: – A typo in the package name – The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your min
imum-stability setting see f
or more details.

try

“require”: { “cakephp/CakePHP”: “2.3.3” }

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