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

My quick solution for a macports installation, with multiple versions of PHP was to write this simple shell wrapper for Composer:

/user/local/bin/composer-nodebug.sh

#!/bin/bash

sudo mv /opt/local/var/db/php53/xdebug.ini /opt/local/var/db/php53/xdebug.NOT
sudo mv /opt/local/var/db/php54/xdebug.ini /opt/local/var/db/php54/xdebug.NOT
sudo mv /opt/local/var/db/php55/xdebug.ini /opt/local/var/db/php55/xdebug.NOT
composer $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7
sudo mv /opt/local/var/db/php53/xdebug.NOT /opt/local/var/db/php53/xdebug.ini
sudo mv /opt/local/var/db/php54/xdebug.NOT /opt/local/var/db/php54/xdebug.ini
sudo mv /opt/local/var/db/php55/xdebug.NOT /opt/local/var/db/php55/xdebug.ini

Then run any composer commands like so:

sudo composer-nodebug.sh update

Drawbacks:

• requires sudo (unless you chmod the INI files)
• if you kill it mid-way the INI files are modified
• will require future PHP versions added.
• while it's running other PHP processes are affected

Not elegant, but simple.