Feb 8, 2012 · Authors: Nils Adermann, Jordi Boggiano and many community contributions Sponsored by: Logo by: Max Grigorian Composer and all content on this site are released …

Feb 8, 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.

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 platform dependencies Making your package depend on specific Composer versions Setting up and using custom installers Modify the way certain types of packages are installed

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.

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.

Composer will correctly pick your package over the original one since the custom repository has priority over packagist. If you want to rename the package, you should do so in the default …

Composer may prompt for credentials when needed, but these can also be manually set. Read more on how to get an OAuth token for GitHub and cli syntax here.

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.

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.