Composer with different ini or with different PHP

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Hacking Composer

When you wanna

• use different version of PHP for Composer (or other CLI apps)
• use different php.ini with Composer, because of for example slow XDebug (that you don't even need with production phar of Composer)

Usage

• save composer.sh as /usr/local/bin/composer
• save composer.php.ini as /usr/local/etc/composer.php.ini, or create your own ini
• chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer
• profit

Mods

• You can easily change the used PHP runtime by changing the php binnary to an absolute path

composer.php.ini

[php]
memory_limit = -1
max_execution_time = 0
date.timezone = "Europe/Prague"
realpath_cache_size = "4096K"

[opcache]
opcache.enable = 1
opcache.enable_cli = 1
opcache.memory_consumption = 256
opcache.interned_strings_buffer = 256
opcache.max_accelerated_files = 65407
opcache.validate_timestamps = false # keep in mind to flush the cache, once you update composer
opcache.save_comments = true
opcache.load_comments = true
opcache.max_file_size = 0

composer.sh

#!/bin/bash
php -n -c /usr/local/lib/composer.php.ini /usr/local/bin/composer.phar $@

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