[RESOLVED] PROBLEMS WITH COMPOSER AND WAMP

davidmorley

I want to install Composer in WAMP.
Problem (1) I cannot find php.exe : \wampstack-5.6.28-1\php has no exe file and seemingly no file of approximately the correct size which I think is about 30 Mb

Problem (2) I cannot find \usr\local\bin where I am expecting I might have to place the phar file.

Re problem (1) I assumed that PHP was already in WAMP - Have I misunderstood this ? Do I have to get php.exe from somewhere else ? Or did I mess up installing WAMP ?

NogDog

If you installed wampserver, then PHP should be installed. I don't remember off-hand if wampserver adds it to the windows path, or if you need to do it manually. On my Windows machine, it's in C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.5.12. (Yes, I've not used Windows for development in awhile, so it's a bit out of date.)

If it's in your path already, then you should be able to open a terminal window and enter...

php -v

...and have it tell you what version it's running. If it complains that it doesn't know what "php" is, then you probably need to add the path to your Windows config.

davidmorley

OK Thanks for this. Although I can't find the folder with the code, it does seem to be there because it is listed on phpmyadmin and sticking increasingly complicated test programs into \apache2\htdocs all work OK.

What about this missing \usr folder ? Various sources say I will need to put composer.phar there so that it is available everywhere

NogDog

[FONT=Courier New]/usr[/FONT] is a typical Linux folder (and OSX), but not Windows. There's normally a folder for each user on the machine that is that user's "home" directory in the file system, e.g. [FONT=Courier New]/usr/nogdog/[/FONT]. If some instructions are telling you to do something in /usr, you may need to select somewhere else that seems more like a home directory -- or see if you can find Windows-specific instructions for what you are doing.

Or...consider setting up a Linux virtual machine (VM) on your computer so that you can work in a Linux environment (also possible with Docker, which is cool, but my be a bit of a learning curve for the moment).

davidmorley

Thanks for explaining this. I appreciate that PHP is advancing at a rate of knots, but it seems that most of the documentation does not explicitly refer to what to do in Windows. I'll just have to keep bashing on - try this - try that.