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See the documentation: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/artisan#calling-commands-outside-of-cli
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Feb 27, 2015
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Run composer command in a controller
Hi all.
How can I run a composer command in a Laravel controller ? When a user submit a form I want to fire off this commands :
cd code
composer create-project laravel/laravel my-project
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This command allow us to fire off a artisan command. What I want is to fire off a composer command.
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Locally?
exec('cd code && composer create-project laravel/laravel my-project');
// or
shell_exec('cd code && composer create-project laravel/laravel my-project');
Depends which you need the output of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7093860/php-shell-exec-vs-exec
If not locally, use SSH. https://github.com/laravel/envoy
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I think "shell_exec" is what I looking for : http://php.net/manual/fr/function.shell-exec.php
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That's what I posted above :)
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Hi
The Laravel / Symfony way we have found is :
$phpFinder = new PhpExecutableFinder();
if($phpBin = $phpFinder->find()) {
// Removing composer dev packages'
$cmdLine = "$phpBin ".base_path('lib/composer/composer.phar').' install --no-dev';
$process = new Process(str_replace('\\','/',$cmdLine),base_path($this->getDistPath()));
$process->setTimeout(0);
$process->mustRun(function($type,$line){
// get output if needed
});
}
For clarity we distribute the composer.phar in our application so we don't depend on a global composer install, the path is reachable within project base folder
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Hello bro,
I think your solution is best however I can't run it. I don't know what this is: base_path($this->getDistPath())
This is my code $cmdLine = "$phpBin ".base_path('composer.phar').' update --no-progress --no-scripts'; $process = new Process([str_replace('\','/',$cmdLine), base_path()]); $process->setTimeout(0); $process->mustRun();
but it's error: Error Output:
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
Please advise.
Best regards,
Matt
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