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Using Composer in MODX Cloud

Modern PHP applications virtually mandate that Composer is used. Fortunately, MODX Cloud supports it by default with a quick trip to the command line:

  1. From the Cloud instance where you wish to use Composer, make note of the internal Cloud URL, and SSH credentials.

  2. Open your terminal, shell or Putty to login via ssh into your Cloud instance

  3. Download and install the advanced tool scripts (you’ll get wp-cli, too):

    sh -c "$(curl https://modx.co/scripts/install.sh)"
  4. Either logout and back into the ssh  session for Composer to be available. Or, use the source command provided.
  5. Use the following command to confirm that Composer is installed: 
    composer --version
  6. That is all.

Development Mode

By default, using Composer in MODX Cloud assumes you're using it as a production environment. As such, when running composer install you will find that it will not install any of the items identified in the require-dev section of your composer.json.

To allow for the installation of your development dependencies you'll need to either change the /home/.profile file where it says:

  export COMPOSER_NO_DEV=1

to

  export COMPOSER_NO_DEV=0

which will disable this. 

The better solution if you're eventually going to make this your production environment is to use the following command which will override the COMPOSER_NO_DEV=1 in the .profile.

COMPOSER_NO_DEV=0 composer install

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