Composer-friendly PHP wrapper?

[gene-eu-zz]

Study how Composer works, figure out what is necessary to wrap PHP library for Composer.

[mnaza]

If I understand correctly, composer can add php-extensions(phpthemis is extension) as requirements of php project but it can`t build and install it.

[gene-eu-zz]

Leaving this for future - maybe someone someday will figure out how to benefit more from Composer

[gene-eu-zz]

Thing is, we know that within PHP ecosystem there are some nifty packaging options, which will significantly simplify using Themis for PHP folks, but we're not aware of current PHP packaging trends, apart from knowing that there is Composer and it somehow helps :)

[gene-eu-zz]

Formal criterias from awesome-php

Software that is PHP 5.5+, Composer-installable, PSR compliant, semantically versioned, unit tested

[gene-eu-zz]

https://getcomposer.org/ - docs here, then submit here https://packagist.org/

[mnaza]

Composer can't install php extensions like phpthemis, in Composer terms called platform paskages. The only thing user can do is add line:

"ext-phpthemis": "*"

to require section of his composer.json in his project to check - is phpthemis installed in system.

Even if we create some php wrapper around phpthemis and create Composer paskage from it manual instalation of phpthemis will be require.

[gene-eu-zz]

You mean we can't install php wrapper around themis as composer package or all of it? (obviously we can't build binaries through php, it's not that we expect to).

[vixentael]

We decided to distribute PHP wrapper via pre-built packages. Working on this right now. I'll post instructions here when we finish it.

However, now we support phpthemis testing using composer (#284)

[vixentael]

Okay, now you can install phpthemis downloading its package:
https://github.com/cossacklabs/themis/wiki/PHP-Howto#quickstart