# PHP Client without composer

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/php-client-without-composer/68469
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 8, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/php-client-without-composer/68469 "2016-12-08T18:51:49Z")
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### Author: ![mc1392](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mc1392](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mc1392)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/php-client-without-composer/68469/1 "2016-12-08T18:51:49Z")

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I see in the docs that **composer** and **ext-curl** are required for the **PHP client**.

I wouldn't want to install things on my shared servers.  
I don't want to spin up an EC2 instance just to accommodate my search.

Isn't there a way to do this over PURE **REST**?  
Without having to install **composer**?  
I don't mind the **ext-curl**.

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### Author: ![pmoust](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pmoust/32/11656_2.png) [@pmoust](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pmoust)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/php-client-without-composer/68469/2 "2016-12-09T13:44:22Z")

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Hi @mc1392, I moved your question to the appropriate forum as it was not something Cloud-specific.

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### Author: ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/php-client-without-composer/68469/3 "2016-12-09T15:36:08Z")

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I'm fairly sure composer is just used to fetch the dependencies and build the autoload files. You should be able to use composer to generate the things you want and go from there. It has been a few years since I did PHP development and that was on MediaWiki which didn't use composer so we had to do this kind of thing.

> [@mc1392](#):
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> I don't want to spin up an EC2 instance just to accommodate my search.

I don't think that has anything to do with composer.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/php-client-without-composer/68469/4 "2016-12-12T15:36:12Z")

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