Hi reesa. I just tested this on a fresh Drupal 11.1.5 site running PHP 8.3.17 in a local DDEV environment. I ran into the same problem trying to install the Nominatim provider via Composer, but I got it working with one small adjustment.
My setup:
- Drupal 11.1.5
- PHP 8.3.17
- nginx/1.26.3
- MariaDB 10.11.11
- Composer 2.7.x
- DDEV local stack
Installed the required modules:
composer require drupal/geofield drupal/address drupal/geofield_map
ddev drush en geocoder_address geofield_map geocoder_geofield -yWhich enabled:
- address
- geofield
- geofield_map
- geocoder
- geocoder_address
- geocoder_field
- geocoder_geofield
Then I tried installing the Nominatim provider:
ddev composer require geocoder-php/nominatim-provider
This failed with a dependency conflict:
- `nominatim-provider` requires `willdurand/geocoder:^4.0`
- But my lock file had `willdurand/geocoder:^5.0`, which is incompatible
- Composer also rejected most versions due to PHP version mismatch
Solution:
ddev composer require geocoder-php/nominatim-provider -W
The `-W` flag (aka `--with-all-dependencies`) allowed Composer to downgrade `willdurand/geocoder` to `4.6.0`, which resolved all version constraints and works with PHP 8.3.
Result:
Nominatim now works fine for geocoding address fields into geofields.
Posting this in case anyone else hits the same PHP compatibility wall and needs a quick workaround. Thanks!
Patch #12 confirmed working on stable version 2.1.3 / Drupal 11.1.5
Tested environment:
- Drupal 11.1.5 (Composer-based install)
- PHP 8.3 (via DDEV)
- MariaDB 10.11
- cweagans/composer-patches ^1.7.3
This was tested on a virgin, new install of Drupal without any other modules. I initially tried patch #6, which updates the plugin definitions to use PHP 8 attributes (e.g., #[FieldType(...)]). That patch introduces a reference to a TimeFieldItemList class:
list_class: TimeFieldItemList::class
However, that class is missing from the module, which caused a fatal error when attempting to add a Time field:
Error: Class "Drupal\time_field\Plugin\Field\FieldType\TimeFieldItemList" not found
I then applied patch #12, which only changes the category value in the annotation from:
@FieldType(
category = @Translation("General"),
to:
@FieldType(
category = "general",
This patch applied cleanly and resolved the following error when adding a Time field:
AssertionError: "General" must be defined in MODULE_NAME.field_type_categories.yml
After applying patch #12, I was able to:
- Add a Time field to the default Article and Basic Page content types
- Create and save nodes using the field
- Rebuild caches with no errors
Note: This issue affects the current stable release, 2.1.3, which is listed as Drupal 11-compatible on the project page. That version fails on Drupal 11 unless patch #12 is applied. Recommending the patch be committed and/or the compatibility info updated.
Thanks to everyone involved — this patch works well.
It's worth noting that as of today, Mar 24, 2025, AFAIK there are no free Geocoder providers that are able to work (except Google's paid model) with PHP 8.3, a requirement for Drupal 11.
This seems to be a Composer timeout issue. When I ran:
composer config --global process-timeout 2000 and re-ran my ddev composer command to install Bootstrap 5, it worked. Hopefully this helps.