Title: Composer
Description: 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. Dependency management# Composer is not a package manager in the same sense as Yum or Apt are. Yes, it deals with "packages" or libraries, but it manages them on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory (e.g. vendor) inside your project. By default it does not install anything globally. Thus, it is a dependency manager. It does however support a "global" project for convenience via the global command. This idea is not new and Composer is strongly inspired by node's npm and ruby's bundler. Suppose: You have a project that depends on a number of libraries. Some of those libraries depend on other libraries. Composer: Enables you to declare the libraries you depend on. Finds out which versions of which packages can and need to be installed, and installs them (meaning it downloads them into your project). See the Basic usage chapter for more details on declaring dependencies. System Requirements# Composer requires PHP 5.3.2+ to run. A few sensitive php settings and compile flags are also required, but when using the installer you will be warned about any incompatibilities. To install packages from sources instead of simple zip archives, you will need git, svn, fossil or hg depending on how the package is version-controlled. Composer is multi-platform and we strive to make it run equally well on Windows, Linux and OSX. Installation - Linux / Unix / OSX# Downloading the Composer Executable# Composer offers a convenient installer that you can execute directly from the commandline. Feel free to download this file or review it on GitHub if you wish to know more about the inner workings of the installer. The source is plain PHP. There are in short, two ways to install Composer. Locally as part of your project, or globally as a system wide executable.
Size: 745KB
Version: 1.5.2
Download: Download Link
Description: 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. Dependency management# Composer is not a package manager in the same sense as Yum or Apt are. Yes, it deals with "packages" or libraries, but it manages them on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory (e.g. vendor) inside your project. By default it does not install anything globally. Thus, it is a dependency manager. It does however support a "global" project for convenience via the global command. This idea is not new and Composer is strongly inspired by node's npm and ruby's bundler. Suppose: You have a project that depends on a number of libraries. Some of those libraries depend on other libraries. Composer: Enables you to declare the libraries you depend on. Finds out which versions of which packages can and need to be installed, and installs them (meaning it downloads them into your project). See the Basic usage chapter for more details on declaring dependencies. System Requirements# Composer requires PHP 5.3.2+ to run. A few sensitive php settings and compile flags are also required, but when using the installer you will be warned about any incompatibilities. To install packages from sources instead of simple zip archives, you will need git, svn, fossil or hg depending on how the package is version-controlled. Composer is multi-platform and we strive to make it run equally well on Windows, Linux and OSX. Installation - Linux / Unix / OSX# Downloading the Composer Executable# Composer offers a convenient installer that you can execute directly from the commandline. Feel free to download this file or review it on GitHub if you wish to know more about the inner workings of the installer. The source is plain PHP. There are in short, two ways to install Composer. Locally as part of your project, or globally as a system wide executable.
Size: 745KB
Version: 1.5.2
Download: Download Link