Are there plans to build in composer? This is a pretty important feature for us since most of our themes manage packages with composer. We could use composer outside of the container but that would lead to potential version mismatches.

Hi @greghunt . Welcome to DevKinsta! You should still be able to use Composer on your sites once a site has been created on DevKinsta. It would be installed locally rather than on the Docker container. Have you experienced any issues implementing Composer on a site?

Hi Michael, thanks for the reply. Yes the trouble is I may have a PHP version mismatch when using composer. For example my OS currently runs php8 but my kinsta site may be running 7.4 in its container. So if I run composer locally I may get errors with confused PHP versions

Backing this request up. We also develop lot’s of WP sites with composer, so it would be great to have that included.

Hi @aaronmeder @greghunt . I see what you mean. You’re correct that it’d need to do used from within the container but I understand that may not be ideal. I’ll move this over to our feature request section for our devs to take a look at.

@aaronmeder @greghunt Until this is part of DevKinsta, there is a simple and easy way to install composer on your DevKinsta. https://gist.github.com/nem-c/da6d169f2fa8071f3755fac4cbec6e3f install-composer ## On you machine run: docker exec -it devkinsta_fpm bash ## After you are logged ch…

Thank you for sharing @nemanjac !

Hi, Is there already a update? Because this hash is not valid anymore and we can not install composer.

Hi @jasperheidebrink , this should work if you use the current installer checksum found at the top of this page: https://composer.github.io/pubkeys.html I’ll ask our developers to look into this feature request again as well.

Hello @DavidME :wave: Welcome to DevKinsta Community! I don’t have/use Mac here (but Linux Ubuntu), and as I could check/see, those command-lines shared by manjac (:bowing_man: Thank you Nemanja Cimbaljevic!) should be able to be run on Mac machines as well. In order to do so, first you can run/o…

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DavidME (David Martinez Esguerra) February 13, 2023, 4:13pm 10

Hello @nemanjac thanks for your answer, do you know if there is an option to use this on MacOS system?

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