add a basic composer configuration file

[csanquer]

see #51

to test installation with composer:

add this to your composer.json config file

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/csanquer/PHPExcel.git"
        }
    ],
    "minimum-stability": "dev",
    "require": {
        "phpoffice/phpexcel": "*"
    }
}

then run

php composer.phar update

A class mapping is generated in vendor/composer/autoload_classmap.php and you need only to include the autoloader vendor/autoload.php

[MarkBaker]

I'm not as familiar with composer as I should be (it's on my "to learn about" list), so I'm not completely sure what this actually does, how it ties (for example) the minimum-stability with a branch or tag on github.

[vinigarcia87]

You guys should create a Zend Framework 2 Module for PHPExcel too!

[csanquer]

@vinigarcia87 Sorry i don't see the connection with composer config

[vinigarcia87]

ZF2 uses composer and PSR-0 autoload to install vendor modules...

[lsmith77]

@MarkBaker composer has become more or less the defacto tool for managing dependencies with php. there already seem to be 2 people that have forked this code and created their "own" composer packages:

• https://packagist.org/packages/CodePlex/PHPExcel
• https://packagist.org/packages/phpexcel/phpexcel

it would be good to get this from the source.

[tlfbrito]

@MarkBaker plz check http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A4XrB5g0fk&feature=player_embedded to learn more about composer

[cyberwolf]

If I am correctly reading the code PHPExcel will also register its own autoloader in Classes/PHPExcel.php:

/** PHPExcel root directory */
if (!defined('PHPEXCEL_ROOT')) {
    define('PHPEXCEL_ROOT', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');
    require(PHPEXCEL_ROOT . 'PHPExcel/Autoloader.php');
}

In PHPExcel/Autoloader.php:

PHPExcel_Autoloader::Register();

If PHPExcel will support installation via Composer (+1 from me), is there a way to circumvent loading PHPExcel's own autoloader as well?

[rogeriopradoj]

+1

[robsonpeixoto]

+1

[MarkBaker]

Hopefully composer file now in place, and I'm sure somebody who knows more about these things will correct me if it's wrong

[lsmith77]

thx .. i added some comments for things that need to be fixed.

FYI there is php composer.phar validate to validate the composer.json.
There is then one last step to do and that is to register the package on https://packagist.org

[robsonpeixoto]

Some suggestion ...

diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index c6ef49c..a547934 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     "keywords": ["PHP","Excel","OpenXML","xlsx","xls","spreadsheet"],
     "homepage": "http://phpexcel.codeplex.com",
     "type": "library",
-    "license": "LGPL",
+    "license": "LGPL-2.1",
     "authors": [
         {
             "name": "Maarten Balliauw",
@@ -22,15 +22,15 @@
     ],
     "require": {
         "php": ">=5.2.0",
+        "ext-gd": "*",
         "ext-xml": "*"
     },
-    "recommend": {
-        "ext-zip": "*",
-        "ext-gd2": "*"
+    "suggest": {
+        "ext-zip": "Only needed by PHPExcel_Reader_Excel2007, PHPExcel_Writer_Excel2007, PHPExcel_Reader_OOCalc"
     },
     "autoload": {
         "psr-0": {
-            "PHPExcel": ""
+            "PHPExcel": "Classes/"
         }
     }
 }

[MarkBaker]

Package has already been registered on packagist.org - https://packagist.org/packages/phpoffice/phpexcel

[MarkBaker]

"ext-gd": "*", isn't required though, it's only used if you want to use the exact method for autosizing column width, or rendering charts as jpg images