在终端中调用composer.phar时，获取“无法打开输入文件：composer.phar”

Question

I am working on a PHP development project that includes Composer. I am relatively new at this so I thank you in advance for your patience with my question, and ask that you reply in as simple of language as possible.

I am trying to run the following command in terminal:

php composer.phar dump-autoload -o

I am getting the following error:

Could not open input file: composer.phar

This is the file path to my composer.phar folder: /Users/administrator/Dropbox/2016/2016ProjectFiles/2016ProjectsWeb/GG/authentication/composer.phar

I have tried several ways to provide the file path, including the following:

$cd /Users/administrator/Dropbox/2016/2016ProjectFiles/2016ProjectsWeb/GG/authentication/composer.phar dump-autoload -o

...and...

$cd ../authentication/composer.phar dump-autoload -o

It is entirely possible/likely that my syntax is wrong or there is a stupid simple solution that I just don't know. I just need to be able to run file commands on composer.phar from terminal. Any help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

You have downloaded composer.phar file successfully. Great job. Now the second steps is to make ti globally accessible like php or git.

This article about installing composer in Mac describe as follows:

Quoting Running Composer section

Run commads:

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/
vim ~/.bash_profile

Now add to .bash_profile:

alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer.phar"

And you're done.

Run composer anywhere you need.