Composer
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Mar 1, 2012 · To quickly install Composer in the current directory, run the following script in your terminal. To automate the installation, use the guide on installing Composer programmatically.
Introduction - Composer
Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you.
Composer
How do I install Composer programmatically? How do I install untrusted packages safely? Is it safe to run Composer as superuser or root? How to use Composer behind a proxy Should I …
Basic usage - Composer
To start using Composer in your project, all you need is a composer.json file. This file describes the dependencies of your project and may contain other metadata as well.
Command-line interface / Commands - Composer
To get help from the command-line, call composer or composer list to see the complete list of commands, then --help combined with any of those can give you more information.
Repositories - Composer
Types # Composer The main repository type is the composer repository. It uses a single packages.json file that contains all of the package metadata. This is also the repository type …
Config - Composer
Composer caches all dist (zip, tar, ...) packages that it downloads. When the garbage collection is periodically ran, this is the maximum size the cache will be able to use.
Libraries - Composer
Packagist is the main package repository for Composer, and it is enabled by default. Anything that is published on Packagist is available automatically through Composer.
Authentication for privately hosted packages and repositories
In order to allow your project to have access to these packages and repositories you will have to tell Composer how to authenticate with the server that hosts them.