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Adding CakePHP as composer package

Here is a quick note on how to add CakePHP 2.x as a dependency for your cake project using composer. The root composer.json file would look something like this:

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{
    "name": "vendorname/appname",
    "description": "Addding cake as composer package",
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "package",
            "package": {
                "name": "cakephp/cakephp",
                "version": "2.3.6",
                "dist": {
                    "url": "https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/archive/2.3.6.zip",
                    "type": "zip"
                },
                "source": {
                    "url": "https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/",
                    "type": "git",
                    "reference": "tree/2.3.6/"
                }
            }
        }
    ],
    "require":{
        "cakephp/cakephp": "~2.3"
    },
    "config":{
        "vendor-dir":"Vendor"
    }
}

As you can see, we don’t specify autoload or include-dirs, we let CakePHP’s own autoloader still handle that part.

Next you need to update your app/webroot/index.php (and test.php)

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define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', ROOT . DS . APP_DIR . DS . 'Vendor' . DS . 'cakephp' . DS . 'cakephp' . DS . 'lib');

And also update your app/Console/cake.php

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$root = dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . $ds . 'Vendor' . $ds . 'cakephp' . $ds . 'cakephp';
ini_set('include_path', $root . $ds . 'lib' . PATH_SEPARATOR . ini_get('include_path'));

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