Use composer without shell access

[taviroquai]

Hi all,

I did a basic search on issues but did not found anything specifically like this.

I've been using composer for my basic needs but now I would like to use it without shell access.

I saw a description of how it can be used directly from PHP script in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17219436/run-composer-with-a-php-script-in-browser

I did extract composer.phar and call Application::run() but I see from xdebug that its throwing a lot of exceptions (I'm not sure it its related to #1242). I can see that the repos are being downloaded but somehow my script is exiting at Application::run(). I tried to suppress some exceptions but it just exists my script.

I think this is very important because a lot of shared hosting plans does not offer shell access.

Any ideas? Thank you :)

[Seldaek]

You should call $app->setAutoExit(false) if you need to run things after run()

As for the exceptoins I'm not quite sure what they are since you didn't share much info.