Question

To install vendors for Symfony 2.1.0 I’m running php composer.phar install but it gives error during Generating autoload files.

Error is:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ‘\’ (ASCII=92) state=1 in on line 26

Script Sensio\Bundle\DistributionBundle\Composer\ScriptHandler::buildBootstrap handling the post-install-cmd event terminated with an exception

It works fine on localhost, but not on server. Not sure what the problem is with the php set up?

EDIT:

PHP is 5.3.13. I checked that beforehand.

I ran app/check.php and everything is OK, except warning for accelerator.

I could successfully install composer as well.

The composer.json has the same values as the 2.1 symfony-standard branch:

"extra": {
    "symfony-app-dir": "app",
    "symfony-web-dir": "web"
}

Answer 1

The host seems to use php5.2 by standard. sigh.

I made an alias in the .bash_profile to the php53 executable previously.

This did not get return with ScriptHandler::getPhp as it returned the default executable (5.2). I didn’t pick it up as I’m used to the T_FUNCTION error being namespacing not recognised.

I could change my .bash_profile to use PATH instead of alias.

Seems resolved.