How to run composer install / update in Herd ?

[magic-thomas]

Hi . I am using php8.2 on M1 Macbook laptop.

I have another projects which are based on 8.0 and 7.4, but these projects does not vendor folder.

So I have to install packages with composer. How can I do this ?

I tried to find it but all failed to install packages with old php versions.

Is it impossible to run 'composer install / update' with another php version in Herd ?

[mpociot]

If you have isolated the sites, you can run "herd composer" to use composer with the isolated php version a

[olehasoft]

I use Herd on Windows 11, where composer is executed via ~\.config\herd\bin\composer.bat

@ECHO OFF
php "%~dp0composer.phar" %*

I copied the file in the same directory to composer81.bat and replaced the startup with the appropriate version of PHP 8.1

@ECHO OFF
php81 "%~dp0composer.phar" %*

The resulting composer81 command is faster than isolated herd composer and does not require Herd to be running.

I'm sure you can do the same on macOS. It's a shame that Herd doesn't have this by default.