Running composer in a different directory than current

Question

I don\'t know if this question has been asked, because searching finds results mostly about moving the libraries installation directory.

I have a globally installed comp

Answer 1

Sure, try composer install -h. There you'll find an option --working-dir (or -d). And that's what you're looking for.

Then run:

composer install -d=/home/someuser/myproject

You can find more in composer docs.

Depending on your operating system, the = might need to be removed:

composer install -d /home/someuser/myproject

Answer 2

In addition to the above answer from Tomáš Votruba i had to append the = charachter on OSX. So the full command would be:

composer install -d=/home/someuser/myproject

My first post on SO so was unable to simply add this as a comment.

Answer 3

Run:

cd /home/mysites/google.com

Then run:

composer require facebook/graph-sdk

Above steps will open up the directory named (google.com) and install facebook Graph SDK there.

Answer 4

This works for me, PHP 7.3 on ubuntu 18.04

Install

composer install --working-dir=/your_composer_dir

Update

composer update --working-dir=/your_composer_dir