Composer installs not generating autoload.php properly?

[mbmjertan]

Hey,

I tried installing PHPWord using composer install --prefer-source and the composer.json that you suggest developers should use in the documentation, but I'm getting this error in my error log when I try running the samples:

[04-Aug-2016 00:39:25 Europe/Zagreb] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Exception: Could not find file '/autoload.php'. It is generated by Composer. Use 'install --prefer-source' or 'update --prefer-source' Composer commands to move forward. in /Users/mbm/projekti/SomeProject/vendor/phpoffice/phpword/bootstrap.php:22
Stack trace:
#0 /Users/mbm/projekti/SomeProject/vendor/phpoffice/phpword/samples/Sample_Header.php(2): require_once()
#1 /Users/mbm/projekti/SomeProject/vendor/phpoffice/phpword/samples/index.php(2): include_once('/Users/mbm/proj...')
#2 {main}
  thrown in /Users/mbm/projekti/SomeProject/vendor/phpoffice/phpword/bootstrap.php on line 22

This is my composer.json:

{
    "name": "mbmjertan/SomeProject",
    "authors": [
        {
            "name": "Mario Borna Mjertan",
            "email": "[email protected]"
        }
    ],
     "require": {
       "phpoffice/phpword": "dev-develop"
    }
}

Composer:
Composer version 1.2-dev (06499749ff8875f939f413cf9a3725792d4ee4f9) 2016-07-11 07:16:26

PHP 7.0.0 on Mac OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) under Apache

Is there something I'm doing wrong or missing? This is my first time using Composer in a project.

For what it's worth, I tried looking at the source myself and it seems that PHPOffice is trying to include files from $vendorDirPath = realpath(__DIR__ . '/vendor');, a folder that does not exist.

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[avinash-0007]

did u find the answer??

[mbmjertan]

@avinashdchase unfortunately, no. I did a terrible hackjob to make it somewhat work, but that fell short and I ran out of things to try.

[CodeJason]

Basically the bootstrap file is not getting the right path, at least for the samples page.
Here's what I changed phpoffice/phpword/bootstrap.php to:

$vendorDirPath = __DIR__ . "/../../autoload.php";

if (file_exists($vendorDirPath)) {
    require $vendorDirPath;
} else {
    throw new Exception(
        sprintf(
            'Could not find file \'%s\'. It is generated by Composer. Use \'install --prefer-source\' or \'update --prefer-source\' Composer commands to move forward.',
            $vendorDirPath
        )
    );
}

Once we get to the current directory, we need to travel back up two folders.
Don't know if it'll stuff up when I actually try using phpword but at lease the samples work.

[giltroymeren]

@CodeJason's suggestion worked for me.

[lwb4]

@CodeJason's code worked for me as well. Is there a reason this hasn't been pushed?

[Web1776]

Thanks @CodeJason, your suggestion helped me too

[1manfactory]

Had to use this

$vendorDirPath = __DIR__ . "/../../";

Reminds me again why I dislike composer. I had never been able to install at least one package with composer successfully from scratch. All needed rework.

[vatavale]

Or you can simply change __DIR__ to $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]. So you can include it from any directory.

$vendorDirPath = realpath($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . '/vendor');
if (file_exists($vendorDirPath . '/autoload.php')) {
    require $vendorDirPath . '/autoload.php';
} else {
    throw new Exception(
        sprintf(
            'Could not find file \'%s\'. It is generated by Composer. Use \'install --prefer-source\' or \'update --prefer-source\' Composer commands to move forward.',
            $vendorDirPath . '/autoload.php'
        )
    );
}

[chrisribe]

If you are starting the server from the samples folder (php -S localhost:800) try this:

$vendorDirPath = realpath($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . '/../../../');
if (file_exists($vendorDirPath . '/autoload.php')) {
    require $vendorDirPath . '/autoload.php';
} else {
    throw new Exception(
        sprintf(
            'Could not find file \'%s\'. It is generated by Composer. Use \'install --prefer-source\' or \'update --prefer-source\' Composer commands to move forward.',
            $vendorDirPath . '/autoload.php'
        )
    );
}

Seems complex for just a self contained sample page.
Chris

[lanxiuying]

you should run composer install in your phpword DIR

[rommer-luo]

@1manfactory 很棒，弄了半天，还是你的这一句解决了我的问题！棒棒哒！

[chrisribe]

The docs need to better cover composer issues. Came back to this project to run some tests and could not get it to build. Finally ran:

composer update

And it got all the dependencies correctly and generated the autoload files so they work !
Such a wast of time, please add it to the main readme !

[moly4565]

Hi i can not update phpword package . phpword package 0.16.0 and composer version is 1.8.1
when run on cmd composer require phpoffice/phpword
getting problem
the requested package phpoffice/phpword No version set (parsed as 1.0.0) is satisfiable by phpoffice/phpword No version set (parsed as 1.0.0) but this conflict with your requirements

[moly4565]

Laptop setup ok it working but where install it windows server 2012 r2 then composer installed ok. package cant update
my composer.json code
"require": {
"php": "^5.3.3 || ^7.0",
"ext-xml": "*",
"zendframework/zend-escaper": "^2.2",
"phpoffice/common": "^0.2.9"
}
please help me anyone

[chrisribe]

@moly4565 I added some commands in the readme for production release that may help you.
See my pull request
#1650

Chris

[IssamLammri]

@vatavale your solution is perfect and work in any case