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Question

I'm not sure that this is a Path alias, but I'm not sure how to do this in Windows 7.

When I run PHP composer, it shows all composer options, as expected.
However if I try to run in like

C:\>php composer.phar composer global update squizlabs/php_codesniffer:2.9.1

it returns

[Symfony\\Component\\Console\\Exception\\CommandNotFoundException]
Command "composer" is not defined.

EDIT: I had to install this behind a proxy, and I couldn't use a installer.

How can I create a working alias for simply running

c:\\somewhere\\anywhere\\ composer

instead of php composer.phar so that I can call composer from anywhere on the filesystem and not only inside the php directory?

Answer 1

Here's what I did for Windows PowerShell. I know you asked for help to add this to your PATH, but sadly this was the best that I was able to come up with.

1. Open up your profile (found at $PROFILE , but you might want to edit something a bit more personal like $PROFILE.CurrentUserCurrentHost or $PROFILE.CurrentUserAllHosts . I ended up using the latter as I want to be able to use this in PowerShell ISE and the regular command line.
2. Add the following: function composer { php $HOME\\composer.phar $ARGS }
3. Save the file and restart PowerShell.

That should do the trick, I can now do the following:

PS C:\Users\NathanWindisch> composer
   ______
  / ____/___  ____ ___  ____  ____  ________  _____
 / /   / __ \/ __ `__ \/ __ \/ __ \/ ___/ _ \/ ___/
/ /___/ /_/ / / / / / / /_/ / /_/ (__  )  __/ /
\____/\____/_/ /_/ /_/ .___/\____/____/\___/_/
                    /_/
Composer version 1.8.5 2019-04-09 17:46:47

Usage:
  command [options] [arguments]
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