Error when installing via composer

[abyasoft]

Hello;

First thank you for the great work that you did.

My issue is related to installation via composer, I'm getting errors about ssl certificate. The install process crashes.

[n4ss1m]

Hi @abyasoft,

Thanks for reporting this!

Looking at the error message, "curl error 60 while downloading... SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate", it indicates a problem with your local PHP/Composer environment's ability to verify SSL certificates when connecting to repo.packagist.org.

This error is not related to the piteurstudio/satim-php package itself. It's a common environment issue that affects how Composer can download any package from Packagist or other secure repositories. Essentially, your system isn't able to trust the connection to Packagist, preventing Composer from fetching the package information.

Here's how you can usually resolve this:

1. Update your CA (Certificate Authority) Certificates:
The most common fix is to ensure your system has an up-to-date collection of trusted CA certificates.

• For Windows:

  1. Download the latest cacert.pem file from the cURL website: https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html
  2. Locate your php.ini file (you can find its path by running php --ini in your terminal).
  3. Open php.ini and find the line openssl.cafile. Uncomment it (remove the leading ;) and set its value to the absolute path of the cacert.pem file you downloaded. For example:

     openssl.cafile = "C:\path\to\cacert.pem"

  4. Save the php.ini file and restart any PHP processes or your web server if applicable.

• For Linux/macOS:
  Your operating system usually handles this. Try updating your system's CA certificates.

  • Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ca-certificates
  • Red Hat/CentOS: sudo yum update && sudo yum install ca-certificates
  • macOS (Homebrew): If you use Homebrew for PHP, ensure it's updated: brew update && brew upgrade openssl

2. Configure Composer's cafile (Alternative/Supplemental):
You can also explicitly tell Composer where to find the CA certificate file. After downloading cacert.pem (as in the Windows steps above), run:

composer config -g cafile "C:\path\to\cacert.pem" # On Windows, replace with your actual path

Or for Linux (adjust path as needed, e.g., /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt):

composer config -g cafile "/path/to/your/ca-certificates.crt"

3. Check for composer.json:
The error also mentioned "No composer.json present in the current directory". While the SSL issue is the main blocker, ensure you are running the composer require command in the root of your PHP project where your composer.json file is located, or where you intend to create it. If you're starting a new project, you might want to run composer init first.

Please try these steps, starting with updating your CA certificates, and let me know if you're still encountering issues.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,