PHP81 and composer

Because composer cannot be found in your path.

Did you follow this step;

Most likely, you want to put the composer.phar into a directory on your PATH, so you can simply call composer from any directory (Global install), using for example:

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

For details, see the instructions on how to install Composer globally. https://getcomposer.org/doc/faqs/how-to-install-composer-programmatically.md

Hey Snapey.

Thanks for that. I was sure I had done that. but off the back of your comment I went ahead and redid the composer install steps.

php81 -r "copy(getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"

php81 -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '55ce33d7678c5a611085589f1f3ddf8b3c52d662cd01d4ba75c0ee0459970c2200a51f492d557530c71c15d8dba01eae') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"

php81 composer-setup.php

php81 -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

I then followed that with... sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

this again resulted in ... /usr/bin/env: php: No such file or directory

so I cd to the /usr/local/bin directory. ls and can see composer try composer and get the same error. Seems like something else is going on.

But thanks for your help!

sounds like you need a symlink to alias php to php81

Thanks again snapey. I did a bit more reading and digging and laravel install can be run within the local composer install directory using.

php81 composer.phar create-project laravel/laravel 'project name'

im in a big learning curve =] and no doubt will have more posts around here.

But yes I agree. I think if you symlink so composer thinks php81 is php it may also work. I might try this and confirm