Running Composer returns Could not open input file composer phar

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I am new to symfony2 and reading symblog  In third chapter while trying with data-fixtures I tried the command    php composer phar update   but I got the error    Could not open input file  composer phar  So I googled a little and tried   php composer phar install   but still getting the same error  So please guide how to deal with this composer to install new extentions or bundles like data-fixtures in symfony2 using wamp

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I ve reach to this problem when trying to install composer on a Window 7 machine from http   getcomposer org download page  As there was an existing compose version  provided by acquia Dev Desktop tool  the installation fails and the only chance was to fix this issue manually   or to remove Dev Desktop tool composer    Anyway the error message is quite straightforward  Could not open input file  composer phar   we should then tell the system where the file is located   Edit composer bat file and should look like    SET PATH C  Program Files  x86  DevDesktop php5 4  PATH  php exe composer phar      See that composer phar doesn  t have a file path  When standing in a different folder than the one where composer phar is located the system won  t be able to find it  So  just complete the composer phar file path    SET PATH C  Program Files  x86  DevDesktop php5 4   PATH  SET composerScript composer phar php exe    dp0 composerScript        Reopen your window console and that should do the trick      EDIT  this has an issue because it always uses   dp0 composerScript    folder as composer execution  Then all configurations are done in that   folder  besides standing on your current project folder  and not in your project folder       So far I haven t found a was to make a manual composer installation to   work globally on Windows  Perhaps you should go ahead with composer for windows installation mentioned above

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Just open cmd as Administrator and  go into your project folder and check it is working or not using composer command   The above error is because of the composer is not accessible globally  So you need to run  cmd  as Administrator    This is working fine for me

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I have been facing the same issue till I used the following command   composer self-update  Hope this works for you too  If not  You can check on the entire release here https   blog packagist com composer-2-0-is-now-available

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To solve this issue the first thing you need to do is to get the last version of composer    curl -sS https   getcomposer org installer   php   I recommend you to move the composer phar file to a global    bin    directoy  in my case  OS X  the path is   mv composer phar  usr local bin composer phar   than you need to create an alias file for an easy access   alias composer   usr local bin composer phar    If everything is ok  now it is time to verify our Composer version   composer --version   Let s make composer great again

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I had the same problem on Windows and used a different solution  I used the Composer Setup exe installation file supplied by the composer website and it does a global install    After installing  make sure your PATH variable points to the directory where composer phar is stored  This is usually C  ProgramData ComposerSetup bin  ProgramData might be a hidden directory   It goes without saying  but also be sure that the PHP executable is also in your PATH variable   You can then simply call  composer install   instead of   php composer phar install

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I found this worked as I did not have curl installed  On Windows 8 with XAMPP installed  It will add it to your local build I use  gitignore to avoid the repo  php -r  readfile  https   getcomposer org installer       php   I got it from here  https   getcomposer org download

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If anyone else came this low on the page and still didn t find a working answer  like I did   use this     curl -sS https   getcomposer org installer   php   mv composer phar  usr local bin composer phar   alias composer   usr local bin composer phar    composer --version   et voila  A working composer  -

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Do not access the composer by composer composer pher install  use composer install

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I got this error  Could not open input file  composer phar  while installing Yii2 using below mentioned command       php composer phar create-project yiisoft yii2-app-basic basic   Solutions which worked for me was  I changed the command to     composer create-project yiisoft yii2-app-basic basic   I hope it help

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Background  It is helpful to know that there are two ways to install  and use  Composer  locally as a file in your project directory  or globally as a system-wide executable   Installing Composer locally simply means that you are downloading a file  composer phar - which is a PHP Archive  into your project directory  You will have to download it for every project that requires Composer   Like a regular PHP file that you want to execute on the command line  you will have to run it with PHP   php composer phar update   Which basically tells the php executable to run the file composer phar with update as argument   However  if you install it globally  you can make composer itself executable  so you can call it without php  and don t have to download it for every project   In other words  you can use composer like this   composer update   Since you are executing php composer phar update  and you are getting the error Could not open input file  composer phar  you probably don t have composer phar in your current directory   Solution  If you have Composer installed globally  simply run composer update instead of php composer phar update   If you don t have Composer installed yet  download the PHAR using the following command   curl -sS https   getcomposer org installer   php   This will download the installer and run it using php  The installer will download the actual Composer PHAR to your current working directory  and make it executable   To install Composer globally  I recommend this   copy the file to a location in your PATH  The exact location differs per operating system and setup  see https   getcomposer org doc 00-intro md globally for more information   Personally  I prefer to install Composer in my home directory so I don t need sudo to install or update the composer executable  which can be a security risk   As I m on Linux  I use the following command   mv composer phar    local bin composer

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If you are using Ubuntu Linux and you are trying to run   php composer phar require intervention image on your command line    Use sudo composer require intervention image instead  This will give you want you are looking for

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your composer phar should be placed in above way

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Run the following in command line   curl -sS https   getcomposer org installer   php

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I am using windows 8 0  In my case to install or update i just use composer install or something else instead of php composer phar  This worked for me like   composer require google apiclient 1

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To googlers who installed composer via HomeBrew   make a symbolic link for  usr local bin composer  ln -s  usr local bin composer  usr local bin composer phar

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For windows  I made composer cmd and used the below text   php c  programs php composer phar      where composer phar is installed and c  programs php  is added to my path   Not sure why this isn t done automatically

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Command like this     composer phar require intervention image      error  composer phar  command not found   I solved the problem by following this process   i set the composer globally and renamed composer phar to composer then run this command composer require intervention image   and now it s working fine

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If you followed instructions like these   https   getcomposer org doc 00-intro md  Which tell you to do the following     curl -sS https   getcomposer org installer   php   mv composer phar  usr local bin composer   Then it s likely that you  like me  ran those commands and didn t read the next part of the page telling you to stop referring to composer phar by its full name and abbreviate it as an executable  that you just renamed with the mv command   So this     php composer phar update friendsofsymfony elastica-bundle   Becomes this     composer update friendsofsymfony elastica-bundle

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I had the same issue  It is solved when I made composer globally available  Now I am able to tun the commands from any where in the folder   composer update  composer require  samplelibraryyouwant

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I had an issue getting a package json s script to run composer dumpautoload   I had the file  usr local bin composer phar  and also the file    bash profile  on OSX  contained   alias composer  php  usr local bin composer phar    This allowed composer to work from the command line  but it didn t allow scripts to execute composer   The fix was this     cd  usr local bin   mv composer phar composer   sudo chmod  x composer     x allows the file to be executable  such as by CLI scripts   But that yielded this error Could not open input file   usr local bin composer phar  The fix was to update    bash profile  sudo nano    bash profile   and change the composer alias to   alias composer  php  usr local bin composer     ie    phar  extension removed   Now everything is behaving as expected

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You can just try this command if you re already installed the Composer    composer update    or  if you want add some bundle to your composer try this    composer require

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Hi friends  follow the steps to fix this issue in MAC OS   Step 1  first run the command in Terminal with your project directory       curl -sS https   getcomposer org installer   php  Step 2  Move the composer phar in your project directory       mv composer phar  Applications MAMP htdocs bashrushAPI composer phar  Step 3  Setup alias the composer       alias composer   Applications MAMP htdocs bashrushAPI composer phar   Step 4  Check the composer version now       composer --version           Composer version 1 7 2 2018-08-16 16 57 12     Step 5  Confirm the project folders and file placed on bellow       ls           CONTRIBUTING md     docker-compose yml  templates     README md       logs            tests     composer json       phpunit xml     vendor     composer lock       public     composer phar       src     Step 6  Now update composer       composer phar update           Loading composer repositories with package information     Updating dependencies  including require-dev      Nothing to install or update     Generating autoload files     Step 7  Run your sample project       php composer phar start           php -S localhost 8080 -t public      Thu Sep 27 03 16 11 2018    1 51177  200          Thu Sep 27 03 16 11 2018    1 51178  404    favicon ico - No such file or directory

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Easy answer  navigate to the directory where you already have the composer json file that you want to run  ideally your project folder  then download composer into the same folder  then instantly run the install command like so    php composer phar install   This will automatically find the composer json and run your required scripts  Good luck  This stuff is a breeze for terminal wizards and totally bizarre to the rest of us

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Yesterday I was trying to install Yii2 framework on Windows 10 and I have same problem Could not open input file  composer phar  running this command   php composer phar create-project yiisoft yii2-app-advanced advanced 2 0 9   Issue is composer phr file is not in current directory you need to give full path composer phr like  php C  ProgramData Composer bin composer phar create-project yiisoft yii2-app-advanced advanced 2 0 9   Or you can create yii2 project using this command    composer create-project yiisoft yii2-app-advanced advanced 2 0 9   Or  composer phar create-project yiisoft yii2-app-advanced advanced 2 0 9

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With me it works just you need the file composer phar and composer json in the current project   The command is  php composer phar update

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IF  want to  create  composer phar  file  in any folder  follow  this command   php -r  copy  https   getcomposer org installer    composer-setup php      php -r  if  hash file  sha384    composer-setup php        c5b9b6d368201a9db6f74e2611495f369991b72d9c8cbd3ffbc63edff210eb73d46ffbfce88669ad33695ef77dc76976     echo  Installer verified     else   echo  Installer corrupt   unlink  composer-setup php      echo PHP EOL    php composer-setup php  php -r  unlink  composer-setup php

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the simple straight way i went about this similar was  - navigate to my project folder using cd command prompt - type in composer inside cdm to be sure its installed - if yes then type composer require    the extension u intended to install

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Use this    php -r  readfile  https   getcomposer org installer       php

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use composer alone without php   like    composer create-project --prefer-dist --stability dev developeruz yii-vue-app basic

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This worked  for me   composer install   Without   php composer install

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Your composer phar must be in Source files  I had same problem and I just cut my composer phar into mine  framework-standard-edition folder  where is my whole strong textproject

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if the composer is already install all you need is to know where the composer phar file is  its directory  after that you move to your symfony project where you have the composer json and from that directory you execute your composer phar file  In windows here is what you have to do   symfony project directory where composer json is gt php the directory where composer phar is composer update    That s all

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I know that maybe my answer is too specific for a embedded QNAP server  but I ended here trying to install Yii   For me  inside a QNAP NAS through PuTTY  after trying all tricks above  and updating PATH to no avail  the only cmd line that works is     mnt ext opt apache bin php  usr local bin composer create-project yiisoft yii2-app-basic basic   Of course  adapt your path accordingly     If I do a which composer  I have a correct answer  but if I do a which php nothing returns   Besides that  trying to run    mnt ext opt apache bin php composer create-project yiisoft yii2-app-basic basic   or referring to   composer phar   didn t worked too

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For Windows10 Pro  Following steps fix the issue  select properties check the Unblock program option  run the installer  run the command CMD with Admin rights  At command promp run composer --version to make sure it is globally installed  you should be able to now run composer require drush drush This is for drush dependency using composer

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use two steps    curl -sS https   getcomposer org installer   php  sudo php composer phar update

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I have fixed the same issue with below steps   Open project directory Using Terminal  which you are using i e  mintty   Now install composer within this directory as per given directions on https   getcomposer org download       php -r  copy  https   getcomposer org installer    composer-setup php          php -r  if  hash file  SHA384    composer-setup php        the-provided-hash-code     echo  Installer verified     else   echo  Installer corrupt   unlink  composer-setup php      echo PHP EOL        php composer-setup php   php -r  unlink  composer-setup php        Now run your command    Everything is working fine now because the composer phar file is available within the current project directory   thanks

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You can do  curl -sS https   getcomposer org installer   php   The -sS flag meaning don t show progress  do show errors  and then  php composer phar install   from  How do I get cURL to not show the progress bar   https   packagist org

[php] Running Composer returns: "Could not open input file: composer.phar"

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