Disabling xdebug when running composer

Question

When running composer diagnose, I get the following error :

The xdebug extension is loaded, this can slow down Composer a little. Disablin

Answer 1

I came up with an answer that works pretty well for OSX, and could probably be adapted for any PHP version that loads its extensions using individual .ini files in the "additional ini dir":

#!/bin/sh

function php-no-xdebug {
    local temporaryPath="$(mktemp -t php-no-debug)"

    find /opt/local/etc/$1/php.ini /opt/local/var/db/$1/*.ini ! -name xdebug.ini | xargs cat > "$temporaryPath"
    php -n -c "$temporaryPath" "${@:2}"
    rm -f "$temporaryPath"
}

alias composer="php-no-xdebug php56 ~/bin/composer"