openshift symfony install third party libraries

Question

I'm trying to add FosUserBundle and HWIOAuthBundle to my symfony project in openshift. In localhost, to add those libraries, I'd to edit composer.json and update the composer.phar. Now I don't know how to update the composer.phar on openshift.

My way(step-by-step):

1. Create a symfony app from openshift
2. clone the project to my localhost
3. edit the composer.json and push it again to openshift

after that, what should I do to update the composer? Or is there another way to add those libraries to the symfony project?

Answer 1

You probably need to setup an action_hook to run the composer command on the openshift server after you do a git push, maybe in the deploy action_hook. Another idea would be to install the libraries locally using composer and then add them into git and push all of it up to the server with a git push and let it all be deployed together. As far as I know composer is not installed on the server, so you may need to install it into your app-root/data directory and call it from there with your deploy hook.

Here is a blog article about using composer with OpenShift: http://stanlemon.net/2013/03/22/composer-on-openshift/ that might help answer your question