Re: How to port PHP projects which require composer

Selon Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> le ven. 13 janv. 11:20:25 2023 :

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking at porting https://github.com/vstelmakh/url-highlight  
> for use by FreshPorts.
>
> My current solution:
>
> % sudo pkg install php81-composer
> % fetch -o url-highlight-v3.0.1.tar.gz  
> https://github.com/vstelmakh/url-highlight/archive/refs/tags/v3.0.1.tar.gz
> % tar -xzf url-highlight-v3.0.1.tar.gz
> % composer require vstelmakh/url-highlight
>
> At this point, everything I need is in the newly-created vendor directory.
>
> If I copy that vendor directory to /usr/local/www/freshports/, I can  
> use it like this:
>
> <?php
>
> require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .  '/../vendor/autoload.php');
> use VStelmakh\UrlHighlight\Encoder\HtmlSpecialcharsEncoder;
> use VStelmakh\UrlHighlight\UrlHighlight;
>
> ... etc
>
>
> What is the proper way to port code like this?

It would be very interesting to have a Mk/Uses/composer.mk, like we  
have Mk/Uses/pear.mk.

Adding cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com to the list: do you think it is possible?

-- 
Th. Thomas.