Install Composer without curl (local)

Question

I have to run a Laravel Project on a customers Server, Mcrypt is already installed but I can't run "composer install" because composer is missing. Problem here is, that I can't run

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

because I don't get a connection to other server "outside".

So does anybody know, if I can save the file local and upload it with FTP and run it? Already tried to save the /installer as a file and run it with "asdf | php" but it didn't work. I also downloaded the composer.phar file but how do I run the .phar file?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Downloading the composer phar file as you have done is a sufficient alternative.

Usage:

php composer.phar command

Docs: https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md

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However, I am fairly sure composer depends on curl, at least as far as updating/installing packages goes. So if you're intending to use those features you'll need curl anyway.*

*citation needed.

edit :

I am currently looking through the composer source and I can't yet find a reference to curl. It appears to use stream_context_create, and the manual page for that method doesn't mention curl either. So maybe it'll work without curl...