Composer is a package manager tracking local dependencies of your projects and libraries.
See http://getcomposer.org/ for more information and documentation.
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Download the
composer.phar
executable or use the installer.$ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
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Create a composer.json defining your dependencies. Note that this example is a short version for applications that are not meant to be published as packages themselves. To create libraries/packages please read the guidelines.
{ "require": { "monolog/monolog": ">=1.0.0" } }
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Run Composer:
php composer.phar install
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Browse for more packages on Packagist.
To run tests, or develop Composer itself, you must use the sources and not the phar file as described above.
- Run
git clone https://github.com/composer/composer.git
- Download the
composer.phar
executable - Run Composer to get the dependencies:
cd composer && php ../composer.phar install
You can now run Composer by executing the bin/composer
script: php /path/to/composer/bin/composer
Since Composer works with the current working directory it is possible to install it in a system wide way.
- Change into a directory in your path like
cd /usr/local/bin
- Get Composer
curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
- Make the phar executeable
chmod a+x composer.phar
- Change into a project directory
cd /path/to/my/project
- Use Composer as you normally would
composer.phar install
- Optionally you can rename the composer.phar to composer to make it easier
Composer is part of the homebrew-php project.
- Tap the homebrew-php repository into your brew installation if you haven't done yet:
brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
- Run
brew install josegonzalez/php/composer
. - Use Composer with the
composer
command.
Running php composer.phar self-update
or equivalent will update a phar
install with the latest version.
All code contributions - including those of people having commit access - must go through a pull request and approved by a core developer before being merged. This is to ensure proper review of all the code.
Fork the project, create a feature branch, and send us a pull request.
To ensure a consistent code base, you should make sure the code follows the Coding Standards which we borrowed from Symfony.
If you would like to help take a look at the list of issues.
The developer mailing list is on google groups IRC channels are available for discussion as well, on irc.freenode.org #composer for users and #composer-dev for development.
PHP 5.3+
Nils Adermann - [email protected] - http://twitter.com/naderman - http://www.naderman.de
Jordi Boggiano - [email protected] - http://twitter.com/seldaek - http://seld.be
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.
Composer is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details
This project's Solver started out as a PHP port of openSUSE's Libzypp satsolver.