Executing post-install-cmd commands from composer.json

[adamgoose]

The default composer.json provided by laravel has the following scripts:

"scripts": {
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "php artisan optimize"
        ],
        "pre-update-cmd": [
            "php artisan clear-compiled"
        ],
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "php artisan optimize"
        ],
        "post-create-project-cmd": [
            "php artisan key:generate"
        ]
    },

However, php is not available, thus the push fails. I tried using $BUILD_DIR/bin/php, since that's what you use in the compile script to execute composer, however apparently $BUILD_DIR is empty when composer executes these functions because I receive the following error messages.

sh: /bin/php: not found
Script $BUILD_DIR/bin/php artisan optimize handling the post-install-cmd event returned with an error

How might I go about modifying the composer.json provided by Laravel so that it can successfully execute artisan commands via the json file?

[adamgoose]

I was able to solve my issue by the following steps.

1. I told composer.json to run env on pre-install-cmd, revealing that the environment variable _ points to the php in the build directory's bin.
2. I updated composer.json and replaced php with $_

Thanks for a great buildpack!

[adamgoose]

I have written a tutorial using this build pack, if you'd like to refer to it you your README.md.

https://blog.enge.me/post/a-comprehensive-tutorial-for-deploying-laravel-4-on-heroku

[adamgoose]

Is there a way to export PATH=$PATH:/app/bin during the installation so that I don't have to use the workaround mentioned above?

[winglian]

I haven't run into this issue before and I use laravel pretty extensively with this buildpack. If anything PATH is set during the compile phase here https://github.com/winglian/heroku-buildpack-php/blob/mpm-event-php55-fpm/bin/compile#L52