Solve PHP memory limit using Composer on OSX

Today I was trying to install Symfony on OSX and I get the famous "Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted" error.

If you installed Composer via Homebrew, just update it.

$ sudo composer autoupdate

And that's all.

But, If you didn't install Composer trough Homebrew, try to increase the PHP memory limit in your php.ini

Disclaimer: I didn't used this, but I'm documenting it just in case.

It's located on /etc/php.ini but if you don't have that file, just copy one of the example files and use it as your php.ini.

$ sudo cp /etc/php.ini.default /etc/php.ini

Once you have it, edit with any editor (you'll need to be sudo)

$ sudo vim /etc/php.ini

Find memory_limit and set it to 1G

That might solve the problem, as found on the intertubes ;)