Topic on User talk:ArielGlenn/Emacs as a PHP IDE

It looks like you want use-package-always-ensure. From the docs:

The :ensure keyword causes the package(s) to be installed automatically if not already present on your system...Enable use-package-always-ensure if you wish this behavior to be global for all packages:

(require 'use-package-ensure)
(setq use-package-always-ensure t)

I only noticed because it is missing on lsp-ui and my emacs complained.

Woopsie! I added it to the stanza instead. Admittedly I always manually install elpa packages and choose the appropriate and generally very latest unstable version, and I never ship around my .emacs to some system that has not got the packages yet.