Why can't the WP-CLI installer find my php.ini?

Question

I am trying to install WP-CLI on my Mac using the standard installation command (found here: http://wp-cli.org), yet I am receiving the following error message:

#!/usr/bin/env php

Some settings on your machine make Composer unable to work properly. Make sure that you fix the issues listed below and run this script again:

The detect_unicode setting must be disabled. Add the following to the end of your php.ini: detect_unicode = Off

A php.ini file does not exist. You will have to create one. If you can not modify the ini file, you can also run php -d option=value to modify ini values on the fly. You can use '-d' multiple times.

Installing the main WP-CLI package...

Could not open input file: composer.phar

Installing the Boris package...

Could not open input file: composer.phar

WP-CLI files have been succesfully installed.

To test, run:

/Users/[username]/.composer/bin/wp --info

When I run the test it reports no such file or directory.

I have not installed the bundled PHP that ships with OS X, nor am I using any kind of package. I use MAMP for my local development environment, so my php.ini file is located here:

`/Applications/MAMP/conf/php5.4.4/php.ini`

Can anyone please advise on the best way to get around this error message? Thanks.

Answer 1

This question seems to be really old. No Composer involved now a days to install wp-cli. Just curl, chmod, and copy the file as indicated in http://wp-cli.org/ (:

Now, if anyone wants to add a specific include_path for wp-cli to be aware of (which is how I found this Q) there's 2 options: set a WP_CLI_PHP environment variable OR set include_path in a local php.ini file and modify the wp script to add the -c option after /path/to/php.