Error with composer.phar installing Zend Framework Skeleton App

Question

I have searched basically everywhere I could think of and can't find anyone with the particular problem I'm running into. I'm still back in the bronze age on XP x64, running WAMP. I can get through the install process until the following point:

php composer.phar install

At which point we get the following output:

'mode' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'ErrorException' with message 'Undefined offset: 4' in phar://C:/wamp/www/zf2-tutorial/composer.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Symfony/Component/Console/Application.php:852

Followed by a stacktrace.

As far as I can tell I have a bog-standard WAMP install and my PATH is configured properly. Any advice?

have you tried updating the composer.phar file with the latest install? — Jerry Saravia
yea, I ran self-update prior to install. I'm running PHP 5.3.5. — Daniel Ingraham

Daniel Ingraham Daniel Ingraham · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-13T19:31:34

I managed to resolve this issue by manually writing a composer.json file for a different project and using it to load Doctrine of all things. Since then I have been able to run install without any similar errors. Not sure why this fixed the issue but I recommend anyone having a similar problem try it.

Below is the JSON I used for Doctrine:

{
"name": "My/Project",
"require": {
    "doctrine/common": "dev-master",
    "doctrine/orm": "dev-master",
    "doctrine/dbal": "dev-master",
    "doctrine/doctrine-orm-module": "dev-master",
    "doctrine/doctrine-module": "dev-master",
    "doctrine/migrations": "dev-master",
    "doctrine/data-fixtures": "dev-master"
},
"authors": [
    {
        ...
    }
]
}

Error with composer.phar installing Zend Framework Skeleton App

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