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Merge pull request #2918 from Evan-R/patch-1 

add note for alternate download method in case curl fails
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Jordi Boggiano 2014-04-16 09:00:06 +02:00
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@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ To actually get Composer, we need to do two things. The first one is installing
Composer (again, this means downloading it into your project):
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
> **Note:** If the above fails for some reason, you can download the installer
> with `php` instead:
$ php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php
This will just check a few PHP settings and then download `composer.phar` to
your working directory. This file is the Composer binary. It is a PHAR (PHP