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## Publishing to packagist
Alright, so now you can publish packages. But specifying the vcs repository
Alright, so now you can publish packages. But specifying the VCS repository
every time is cumbersome. You don't want to force all your users to do that.
The other thing that you may have noticed is that we did not specify a package
repository for `monolog/monolog`. How did that work? The answer is packagist.
repository for `monolog/monolog`. How did that work? The answer is Packagist.
[Packagist](https://packagist.org/) is the main package repository for
Composer, and it is enabled by default. Anything that is published on
packagist is available automatically through Composer. Since monolog
Packagist is available automatically through Composer. Since monolog
[is on packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/monolog/monolog), we can depend
on it without having to specify any additional repositories.
If we wanted to share `hello-world` with the world, we would publish it on
packagist as well. Doing so is really easy.
Packagist as well. Doing so is really easy.
You simply hit the big "Submit Package" button and sign up. Then you submit
the URL to your VCS repository, at which point packagist will start crawling
the URL to your VCS repository, at which point Packagist will start crawling
it. Once it is done, your package will be available to anyone.
← [Basic usage](01-basic-usage.md) | [Command-line interface](03-cli.md) →

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@ -64,30 +64,31 @@ If there is a `composer.lock` file in the current directory, it will use the
exact versions from there instead of resolving them. This ensures that
everyone using the library will get the same versions of the dependencies.
If there is no `composer.lock` file, composer will create one after dependency
If there is no `composer.lock` file, Composer will create one after dependency
resolution.
### Options
* **--prefer-source:** There are two ways of downloading a package: `source`
and `dist`. For stable versions composer will use the `dist` by default.
and `dist`. For stable versions Composer will use the `dist` by default.
The `source` is a version control repository. If `--prefer-source` is
enabled, composer will install from `source` if there is one. This is
enabled, Composer will install from `source` if there is one. This is
useful if you want to make a bugfix to a project and get a local git
clone of the dependency directly.
* **--prefer-dist:** Reverse of `--prefer-source`, composer will install
* **--prefer-dist:** Reverse of `--prefer-source`, Composer will install
from `dist` if possible. This can speed up installs substantially on build
servers and other use cases where you typically do not run updates of the
vendors. It is also a way to circumvent problems with git if you do not
have a proper setup.
* **--ignore-platform-reqs:** ignore `php`, `hhvm`, `lib-*` and `ext-*`
requirements and force the installation even if the local machine does not
fulfill these. See also the `platform` [config option](04-schema.md#config).
fulfill these. See also the [`platform`](06-config.md#platform) config option.
* **--dry-run:** If you want to run through an installation without actually
installing a package, you can use `--dry-run`. This will simulate the
installation and show you what would happen.
* **--dev:** Install packages listed in `require-dev` (this is the default behavior).
* **--no-dev:** Skip installing packages listed in `require-dev`. The autoloader generation skips the `autoload-dev` rules.
* **--no-dev:** Skip installing packages listed in `require-dev`. The autoloader
generation skips the `autoload-dev` rules.
* **--no-autoloader:** Skips autoloader generation.
* **--no-scripts:** Skips execution of scripts defined in `composer.json`.
* **--no-plugins:** Disables plugins.
@ -127,7 +128,7 @@ php composer.phar update vendor/*
* **--prefer-dist:** Install packages from `dist` when available.
* **--ignore-platform-reqs:** ignore `php`, `hhvm`, `lib-*` and `ext-*`
requirements and force the installation even if the local machine does not
fulfill these. See also the `platform` [config option](04-schema.md#config).
fulfill these. See also the [`platform`](06-config.md#platform) config option.
* **--dry-run:** Simulate the command without actually doing anything.
* **--dev:** Install packages listed in `require-dev` (this is the default behavior).
* **--no-dev:** Skip installing packages listed in `require-dev`. The autoloader generation skips the `autoload-dev` rules.
@ -171,7 +172,7 @@ php composer.phar require vendor/package:2.* vendor/package2:dev-master
* **--prefer-dist:** Install packages from `dist` when available.
* **--ignore-platform-reqs:** ignore `php`, `hhvm`, `lib-*` and `ext-*`
requirements and force the installation even if the local machine does not
fulfill these. See also the `platform` [config option](04-schema.md#config).
fulfill these. See also the [`platform`](06-config.md#platform) config option.
* **--dev:** Add packages to `require-dev`.
* **--no-update:** Disables the automatic update of the dependencies.
* **--no-progress:** Removes the progress display that can mess with some
@ -195,7 +196,7 @@ uninstalled.
### Options
* **--ignore-platform-reqs:** ignore `php`, `hhvm`, `lib-*` and `ext-*`
requirements and force the installation even if the local machine does not
fulfill these. See also the `platform` [config option](04-schema.md#config).
fulfill these. See also the [`platform`](06-config.md#platform) config option.
* **--dev:** Remove packages from `require-dev`.
* **--no-update:** Disables the automatic update of the dependencies.
* **--no-progress:** Removes the progress display that can mess with some
@ -326,7 +327,7 @@ php composer.phar validate
### Options
* **--no-check-all:** Whether or not composer do a complete validation.
* **--no-check-all:** Whether or not Composer does a complete validation.
## status
@ -351,7 +352,7 @@ vendor/seld/jsonlint:
## self-update
To update composer itself to the latest version, just run the `self-update`
To update Composer itself to the latest version, just run the `self-update`
command. It will replace your `composer.phar` with the latest version.
```sh
@ -364,7 +365,7 @@ If you would like to instead update to a specific release simply specify it:
php composer.phar self-update 1.0.0-alpha7
```
If you have installed composer for your entire system (see [global installation](00-intro.md#globally)),
If you have installed Composer for your entire system (see [global installation](00-intro.md#globally)),
you may have to run the command with `root` privileges
```sh
@ -374,11 +375,12 @@ sudo composer self-update
### Options
* **--rollback (-r):** Rollback to the last version you had installed.
* **--clean-backups:** Delete old backups during an update. This makes the current version of composer the only backup available after the update.
* **--clean-backups:** Delete old backups during an update. This makes the
current version of Composer the only backup available after the update.
## config
The `config` command allows you to edit some basic composer settings in either
The `config` command allows you to edit some basic Composer settings in either
the local composer.json file or the global config.json file.
```sh
@ -393,8 +395,7 @@ php composer.phar config --list
configuration value. For settings that can take an array of values (like
`github-protocols`), more than one setting-value arguments are allowed.
See the [config schema section](04-schema.md#config) for valid configuration
options.
See the [Config](06-config.md) chapter for valid configuration options.
### Options
@ -424,7 +425,7 @@ php composer.phar config repositories.foo vcs https://github.com/foo/bar
## create-project
You can use Composer to create new projects from an existing package. This is
the equivalent of doing a git clone/svn checkout followed by a composer install
the equivalent of doing a git clone/svn checkout followed by a "composer install"
of the vendors.
There are several applications for this:
@ -434,7 +435,7 @@ There are several applications for this:
3. Projects with multiple developers can use this feature to bootstrap the
initial application for development.
To create a new project using composer you can use the "create-project" command.
To create a new project using Composer you can use the "create-project" command.
Pass it a package name, and the directory to create the project in. You can also
provide a version as third argument, otherwise the latest version is used.
@ -574,7 +575,7 @@ not be guessed from VCS info and is not present in `composer.json`.
### COMPOSER_VENDOR_DIR
By setting this var you can make composer install the dependencies into a
By setting this var you can make Composer install the dependencies into a
directory other than `vendor`.
### COMPOSER_BIN_DIR
@ -584,7 +585,7 @@ directory to something other than `vendor/bin`.
### http_proxy or HTTP_PROXY
If you are using composer from behind an HTTP proxy, you can use the standard
If you are using Composer from behind an HTTP proxy, you can use the standard
`http_proxy` or `HTTP_PROXY` env vars. Simply set it to the URL of your proxy.
Many operating systems already set this variable for you.
@ -606,18 +607,18 @@ can also set it to `*` to ignore the proxy for all HTTP requests.
### HTTP_PROXY_REQUEST_FULLURI
If you use a proxy but it does not support the request_fulluri flag, then you
should set this env var to `false` or `0` to prevent composer from setting the
should set this env var to `false` or `0` to prevent Composer from setting the
request_fulluri option.
### HTTPS_PROXY_REQUEST_FULLURI
If you use a proxy but it does not support the request_fulluri flag for HTTPS
requests, then you should set this env var to `false` or `0` to prevent composer
requests, then you should set this env var to `false` or `0` to prevent Composer
from setting the request_fulluri option.
### COMPOSER_HOME
The `COMPOSER_HOME` var allows you to change the composer home directory. This
The `COMPOSER_HOME` var allows you to change the Composer home directory. This
is a hidden, global (per-user on the machine) directory that is shared between
all projects.
@ -631,32 +632,32 @@ You may put a `config.json` file into the location which `COMPOSER_HOME` points
to. Composer will merge this configuration with your project's `composer.json`
when you run the `install` and `update` commands.
This file allows you to set [configuration](04-schema.md#config) and
[repositories](05-repositories.md) for the user's projects.
This file allows you to set [repositories](05-repositories.md) and
[configuration](06-config.md) for the user's projects.
In case global configuration matches _local_ configuration, the _local_
configuration in the project's `composer.json` always wins.
### COMPOSER_CACHE_DIR
The `COMPOSER_CACHE_DIR` var allows you to change the composer cache directory,
which is also configurable via the [`cache-dir`](04-schema.md#config) option.
The `COMPOSER_CACHE_DIR` var allows you to change the Composer cache directory,
which is also configurable via the [`cache-dir`](06-config.md#cache-dir) option.
By default it points to $COMPOSER_HOME/cache on \*nix and OSX, and
`C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Composer` (or `%LOCALAPPDATA%/Composer`) on Windows.
### COMPOSER_PROCESS_TIMEOUT
This env var controls the time composer waits for commands (such as git
This env var controls the time Composer waits for commands (such as git
commands) to finish executing. The default value is 300 seconds (5 minutes).
### COMPOSER_DISCARD_CHANGES
This env var controls the discard-changes [config option](04-schema.md#config).
This env var controls the [`discard-changes`](06-config.md#discard-changes) config option.
### COMPOSER_NO_INTERACTION
If set to 1, this env var will make composer behave as if you passed the
If set to 1, this env var will make Composer behave as if you passed the
`--no-interaction` flag to every command. This can be set on build boxes/CI.
&larr; [Libraries](02-libraries.md) | [Schema](04-schema.md) &rarr;

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@ -20,9 +20,6 @@ this is the `config` field. Only the root package can define configuration.
The config of dependencies is ignored. This makes the `config` field
`root-only`.
If you clone one of those dependencies to work on it, then that package is the
root package. The `composer.json` is identical, but the context is different.
> **Note:** A package can be the root package or not, depending on the context.
> For example, if your project depends on the `monolog` library, your project
> is the root package. However, if you clone `monolog` from GitHub in order to
@ -87,7 +84,7 @@ that needs some special logic, you can define a custom type. This could be a
all be specific to certain projects, and they will need to provide an
installer capable of installing packages of that type.
Out of the box, composer supports four types:
Out of the box, Composer supports four types:
- **library:** This is the default. It will simply copy the files to `vendor`.
- **project:** This denotes a project rather than a library. For example
@ -272,7 +269,7 @@ Example:
All links are optional fields.
`require` and `require-dev` additionally support stability flags (root-only).
`require` and `require-dev` additionally support stability flags ([root-only](04-schema.md#root-package)).
These allow you to further restrict or expand the stability of a package beyond
the scope of the [minimum-stability](#minimum-stability) setting. You can apply
them to a constraint, or just apply them to an empty constraint if you want to
@ -335,7 +332,7 @@ aliases article](articles/aliases.md).
Lists packages required by this package. The package will not be installed
unless those requirements can be met.
#### require-dev <span>(root-only)</span>
#### require-dev <span>([root-only](04-schema.md#root-package))</span>
Lists packages required for developing this package, or running
tests, etc. The dev requirements of the root package are installed by default.
@ -555,7 +552,7 @@ Example:
}
```
### autoload-dev <span>(root-only)</span>
### autoload-dev <span>([root-only](04-schema.md#root-package))</span>
This section allows to define autoload rules for development purposes.
@ -628,7 +625,7 @@ To do that, `autoload` and `target-dir` are defined as follows:
Optional.
### minimum-stability <span>(root-only)</span>
### minimum-stability <span>([root-only](04-schema.md#root-package))</span>
This defines the default behavior for filtering packages by stability. This
defaults to `stable`, so if you rely on a `dev` package, you should specify
@ -643,7 +640,7 @@ a given package can be done in `require` or `require-dev` (see
Available options (in order of stability) are `dev`, `alpha`, `beta`, `RC`,
and `stable`.
### prefer-stable <span>(root-only)</span>
### prefer-stable <span>([root-only](04-schema.md#root-package))</span>
When this is enabled, Composer will prefer more stable packages over unstable
ones when finding compatible stable packages is possible. If you require a
@ -652,11 +649,11 @@ selected granted that the minimum-stability allows for it.
Use `"prefer-stable": true` to enable.
### repositories <span>(root-only)</span>
### repositories <span>([root-only](04-schema.md#root-package))</span>
Custom package repositories to use.
By default composer just uses the packagist repository. By specifying
By default Composer just uses the packagist repository. By specifying
repositories you can get packages from elsewhere.
Repositories are not resolved recursively. You can only add them to your main
@ -665,14 +662,14 @@ ignored.
The following repository types are supported:
* **composer:** A composer repository is simply a `packages.json` file served
* **composer:** A Composer repository is simply a `packages.json` file served
via the network (HTTP, FTP, SSH), that contains a list of `composer.json`
objects with additional `dist` and/or `source` information. The `packages.json`
file is loaded using a PHP stream. You can set extra options on that stream
using the `options` parameter.
* **vcs:** The version control system repository can fetch packages from git,
svn and hg repositories.
* **pear:** With this you can import any pear repository into your composer
* **pear:** With this you can import any pear repository into your Composer
project.
* **package:** If you depend on a project that does not have any support for
composer whatsoever you can define the package inline using a `package`
@ -731,107 +728,12 @@ will look from the first to the last repository, and pick the first match.
By default Packagist is added last which means that custom repositories can
override packages from it.
### config <span>(root-only)</span>
### config <span>([root-only](04-schema.md#root-package))</span>
A set of configuration options. It is only used for projects.
A set of configuration options. It is only used for projects. See
[Config](06-config.md) for a description of each individual option.
The following options are supported:
* **process-timeout:** Defaults to `300`. The duration processes like git clones
can run before Composer assumes they died out. You may need to make this
higher if you have a slow connection or huge vendors.
* **use-include-path:** Defaults to `false`. If true, the Composer autoloader
will also look for classes in the PHP include path.
* **preferred-install:** Defaults to `auto` and can be any of `source`, `dist` or
`auto`. This option allows you to set the install method Composer will prefer to
use.
* **store-auths:** What to do after prompting for authentication, one of:
`true` (always store), `false` (do not store) and `"prompt"` (ask every
time), defaults to `"prompt"`.
* **github-protocols:** Defaults to `["git", "https", "ssh"]`. A list of protocols to
use when cloning from github.com, in priority order. You can reconfigure it to
for example prioritize the https protocol if you are behind a proxy or have somehow
bad performances with the git protocol.
* **github-oauth:** A list of domain names and oauth keys. For example using
`{"github.com": "oauthtoken"}` as the value of this option will use `oauthtoken`
to access private repositories on github and to circumvent the low IP-based
rate limiting of their API.
[Read more](articles/troubleshooting.md#api-rate-limit-and-oauth-tokens)
on how to get an OAuth token for GitHub.
* **http-basic:** A list of domain names and username/passwords to authenticate
against them. For example using
`{"example.org": {"username": "alice", "password": "foo"}` as the value of this
option will let composer authenticate against example.org.
* **platform:** Lets you fake platform packages (PHP and extensions) so that
you can emulate a production env or define your target platform in the
config. e.g. `{"php": "5.4", "ext-something": "4.0"}`.
* **vendor-dir:** Defaults to `vendor`. You can install dependencies into a
different directory if you want to. `$HOME` and `~` will be replaced by your
home directory's path in vendor-dir and all `*-dir` options below.
* **bin-dir:** Defaults to `vendor/bin`. If a project includes binaries, they
will be symlinked into this directory.
* **cache-dir:** Defaults to `$COMPOSER_HOME/cache` on unix systems and
`C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Composer` on Windows. Stores all the caches
used by composer. See also [COMPOSER_HOME](03-cli.md#composer-home).
* **cache-files-dir:** Defaults to `$cache-dir/files`. Stores the zip archives
of packages.
* **cache-repo-dir:** Defaults to `$cache-dir/repo`. Stores repository metadata
for the `composer` type and the VCS repos of type `svn`, `github` and `bitbucket`.
* **cache-vcs-dir:** Defaults to `$cache-dir/vcs`. Stores VCS clones for
loading VCS repository metadata for the `git`/`hg` types and to speed up installs.
* **cache-files-ttl:** Defaults to `15552000` (6 months). Composer caches all
dist (zip, tar, ..) packages that it downloads. Those are purged after six
months of being unused by default. This option allows you to tweak this
duration (in seconds) or disable it completely by setting it to 0.
* **cache-files-maxsize:** Defaults to `300MiB`. 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.
Older (less used) files will be removed first until the cache fits.
* **prepend-autoloader:** Defaults to `true`. If false, the composer autoloader
will not be prepended to existing autoloaders. This is sometimes required to fix
interoperability issues with other autoloaders.
* **autoloader-suffix:** Defaults to `null`. String to be used as a suffix for
the generated Composer autoloader. When null a random one will be generated.
* **optimize-autoloader** Defaults to `false`. Always optimize when dumping
the autoloader.
* **classmap-authoritative:** Defaults to `false`. If true, the composer
autoloader will not scan the filesystem for classes that are not found in
the class map. Implies 'optimize-autoloader'.
* **github-domains:** Defaults to `["github.com"]`. A list of domains to use in
github mode. This is used for GitHub Enterprise setups.
* **github-expose-hostname:** Defaults to `true`. If set to false, the OAuth
tokens created to access the github API will have a date instead of the
machine hostname.
* **notify-on-install:** Defaults to `true`. Composer allows repositories to
define a notification URL, so that they get notified whenever a package from
that repository is installed. This option allows you to disable that behaviour.
* **discard-changes:** Defaults to `false` and can be any of `true`, `false` or
`"stash"`. This option allows you to set the default style of handling dirty
updates when in non-interactive mode. `true` will always discard changes in
vendors, while `"stash"` will try to stash and reapply. Use this for CI
servers or deploy scripts if you tend to have modified vendors.
* **archive-format:** Defaults to `tar`. Composer allows you to add a default
archive format when the workflow needs to create a dedicated archiving format.
* **archive-dir:** Defaults to `.`. Composer allows you to add a default
archive directory when the workflow needs to create a dedicated archiving format.
Or for easier development between modules.
Example:
```json
{
"config": {
"bin-dir": "bin"
}
}
```
> **Note:** Authentication-related config options like `http-basic` and
> `github-oauth` can also be specified inside a `auth.json` file that goes
> besides your `composer.json`. That way you can gitignore it and every
> developer can place their own credentials in there.
### scripts <span>(root-only)</span>
### scripts <span>([root-only](04-schema.md#root-package))</span>
Composer allows you to hook into various parts of the installation process
through the use of scripts.
@ -889,10 +791,11 @@ Optional.
### non-feature-branches
A list of regex patterns of branch names that are non-numeric (e.g. "latest" or something), that will NOT be handled as feature branches. This is an array of strings.
A list of regex patterns of branch names that are non-numeric (e.g. "latest" or something),
that will NOT be handled as feature branches. This is an array of strings.
If you have non-numeric branch names, for example like "latest", "current", "latest-stable"
or something, that do not look like a version number, then composer handles such branches
or something, that do not look like a version number, then Composer handles such branches
as feature branches. This means it searches for parent branches, that look like a version
or ends at special branches (like master) and the root package version number becomes the
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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ of repositories are available, and how they work.
## Concepts
Before we look at the different types of repositories that exist, we need to
understand some of the basic concepts that composer is built on.
understand some of the basic concepts that Composer is built on.
### Package
@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ code, but in theory it could be anything. And it contains a package
description which has a name and a version. The name and the version are used
to identify the package.
In fact, internally composer sees every version as a separate package. While
this distinction does not matter when you are using composer, it's quite
In fact, internally Composer sees every version as a separate package. While
this distinction does not matter when you are using Composer, it's quite
important when you want to change it.
In addition to the name and the version, there is useful metadata. The information
@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ should you need to specify one for whatever reason, you can use `git`, `svn` or
If you set the `no-api` key to `true` on a github repository it will clone the
repository as it would with any other git repository instead of using the
GitHub API. But unlike using the `git` driver directly, composer will still
GitHub API. But unlike using the `git` driver directly, Composer will still
attempt to use github's zip files.
#### Subversion Options
@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ If you have no branches or tags directory you can disable them entirely by
setting the `branches-path` or `tags-path` to `false`.
If the package is in a sub-directory, e.g. `/trunk/foo/bar/composer.json` and
`/tags/1.0/foo/bar/composer.json`, then you can make composer access it by
`/tags/1.0/foo/bar/composer.json`, then you can make Composer access it by
setting the `"package-path"` option to the sub-directory, in this example it
would be `"package-path": "foo/bar/"`.
@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ and `IntermediatePackage` from a Github repository:
### Package
If you want to use a project that does not support composer through any of the
If you want to use a project that does not support Composer through any of the
means above, you still can define the package yourself by using a `package`
repository.
@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ Typically you would leave the source part off, as you don't really need it.
While you will probably want to put your packages on packagist most of the time,
there are some use cases for hosting your own repository.
* **Private company packages:** If you are part of a company that uses composer
* **Private company packages:** If you are part of a company that uses Composer
for their packages internally, you might want to keep those packages private.
* **Separate ecosystem:** If you have a project which has its own ecosystem,
@ -538,15 +538,16 @@ supported use case and changes will happen without caring for third parties
using the code.
Packagist is a Symfony2 application, and it is [available on
GitHub](https://github.com/composer/packagist). It uses composer internally and
acts as a proxy between VCS repositories and the composer users. It holds a list
of all VCS packages, periodically re-crawls them, and exposes them as a composer
GitHub](https://github.com/composer/packagist). It uses Composer internally and
acts as a proxy between VCS repositories and the Composer users. It holds a list
of all VCS packages, periodically re-crawls them, and exposes them as a Composer
repository.
### Toran Proxy
[Toran Proxy](https://toranproxy.com/) is a web app much like Packagist but
providing private package hosting as well as mirroring/proxying of GitHub and packagist.org. Check its homepage and the [Satis/Toran Proxy article](articles/handling-private-packages-with-satis.md)
providing private package hosting as well as mirroring/proxying of GitHub and
packagist.org. Check its homepage and the [Satis/Toran Proxy article](articles/handling-private-packages-with-satis.md)
for more information.
### Satis
@ -616,4 +617,4 @@ You can disable the default Packagist repository by adding this to your
}
```
&larr; [Schema](04-schema.md) | [Community](06-community.md) &rarr;
&larr; [Schema](04-schema.md) | [Config](06-config.md) &rarr;

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# Config
This chapter will describe the `config` section of the `composer.json`
[schema](04-schema.md).
## process-timeout
Defaults to `300`. The duration processes like git clones can run before
Composer assumes they died out. You may need to make this higher if you have a
slow connection or huge vendors.
## use-include-path
Defaults to `false`. If `true`, the Composer autoloader will also look for classes
in the PHP include path.
## preferred-install
Defaults to `auto` and can be any of `source`, `dist` or `auto`. This option
allows you to set the install method Composer will prefer to use.
## store-auths
What to do after prompting for authentication, one of: `true` (always store),
`false` (do not store) and `"prompt"` (ask every time), defaults to `"prompt"`.
## github-protocols
Defaults to `["git", "https", "ssh"]`. A list of protocols to use when cloning
from github.com, in priority order. You can reconfigure it to for example
prioritize the https protocol if you are behind a proxy or have somehow bad
performances with the git protocol.
## github-oauth
A list of domain names and oauth keys. For example using `{"github.com":
"oauthtoken"}` as the value of this option will use `oauthtoken` to access
private repositories on github and to circumvent the low IP-based rate limiting
of their API. [Read
more](articles/troubleshooting.md#api-rate-limit-and-oauth-tokens) on how to get
an OAuth token for GitHub.
## http-basic
A list of domain names and username/passwords to authenticate against them. For
example using `{"example.org": {"username": "alice", "password": "foo"}` as the
value of this option will let Composer authenticate against example.org.
## platform
Lets you fake platform packages (PHP and extensions) so that you can emulate a
production env or define your target platform in the config. Example: `{"php":
"5.4", "ext-something": "4.0"}`.
## vendor-dir
Defaults to `vendor`. You can install dependencies into a different directory if
you want to. `$HOME` and `~` will be replaced by your home directory's path in
vendor-dir and all `*-dir` options below.
## bin-dir
Defaults to `vendor/bin`. If a project includes binaries, they will be symlinked
into this directory.
## cache-dir
Defaults to `$COMPOSER_HOME/cache` on unix systems and
`C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Composer` on Windows. Stores all the caches used
by Composer. See also [COMPOSER_HOME](03-cli.md#composer-home).
## cache-files-dir
Defaults to `$cache-dir/files`. Stores the zip archives of packages.
## cache-repo-dir
Defaults to `$cache-dir/repo`. Stores repository metadata for the `composer`
type and the VCS repos of type `svn`, `github` and `bitbucket`.
## cache-vcs-dir
Defaults to `$cache-dir/vcs`. Stores VCS clones for loading VCS repository
metadata for the `git`/`hg` types and to speed up installs.
## cache-files-ttl
Defaults to `15552000` (6 months). Composer caches all dist (zip, tar, ..)
packages that it downloads. Those are purged after six months of being unused by
default. This option allows you to tweak this duration (in seconds) or disable
it completely by setting it to 0.
## cache-files-maxsize
Defaults to `300MiB`. 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. Older (less used) files will be removed
first until the cache fits.
## prepend-autoloader
Defaults to `true`. If false, the Composer autoloader will not be prepended to
existing autoloaders. This is sometimes required to fix interoperability issues
with other autoloaders.
## autoloader-suffix
Defaults to `null`. String to be used as a suffix for the generated Composer
autoloader. When null a random one will be generated.
## optimize-autoloader
Defaults to `false`. Always optimize when dumping the autoloader.
## classmap-authoritative
Defaults to `false`. If `true`, the Composer autoloader will not scan the
filesystem for classes that are not found in the class map. Implies
'optimize-autoloader'.
## github-domains
Defaults to `["github.com"]`. A list of domains to use in github mode. This is
used for GitHub Enterprise setups.
## github-expose-hostname
Defaults to `true`. If set to `false`, the OAuth tokens created to access the
github API will have a date instead of the machine hostname.
## notify-on-install
Defaults to `true`. Composer allows repositories to define a notification URL,
so that they get notified whenever a package from that repository is installed.
This option allows you to disable that behaviour.
## discard-changes
Defaults to `false` and can be any of `true`, `false` or `"stash"`. This option
allows you to set the default style of handling dirty updates when in
non-interactive mode. `true` will always discard changes in vendors, while
`"stash"` will try to stash and reapply. Use this for CI servers or deploy
scripts if you tend to have modified vendors.
## archive-format
Defaults to `tar`. Composer allows you to add a default archive format when the
workflow needs to create a dedicated archiving format.
## archive-dir
Defaults to `.`. Composer allows you to add a default archive directory when the
workflow needs to create a dedicated archiving format. Or for easier development
between modules.
Example:
```json
{
"config": {
"bin-dir": "bin"
}
}
```
> **Note:** Authentication-related config options like `http-basic` and
> `github-oauth` can also be specified inside a `auth.json` file that goes
> besides your `composer.json`. That way you can gitignore it and every
> developer can place their own credentials in there.
&larr; [Repositories](05-repositories.md) | [Community](07-community.md) &rarr;

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# Community
There are many people using composer already, and quite a few of them are
There are many people using Composer already, and quite a few of them are
contributing.
## Contributing
If you would like to contribute to composer, please read the
[README](https://github.com/composer/composer).
If you would like to contribute to Composer, please read the
[README](https://github.com/composer/composer) and
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com//composer/composer/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
documents.
The most important guidelines are described as follows:
@ -31,4 +33,4 @@ for users and [#composer-dev](irc://irc.freenode.org/composer-dev) for developme
Stack Overflow has a growing collection of
[Composer related questions](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/composer-php).
&larr; [Repositories](05-repositories.md)
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1. Check the ["Package not found"](#package-not-found) item above.
2. If the package tested is a dependency of one of its dependencies (cyclic
dependency), the problem might be that composer is not able to detect the version
dependency), the problem might be that Composer is not able to detect the version
of the package properly. If it is a git clone it is generally alright and Composer
will detect the version of the current branch, but travis does shallow clones so
that process can fail when testing pull requests and feature branches in general.
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## Package not found in a Jenkins-build
1. Check the ["Package not found"](#package-not-found) item above.
2. Reason for failing is similar to the problem which can occur on travis-ci.org: The git-clone / checkout within Jenkins leaves the branch in a "detached HEAD"-state. As a result, composer is not able to identify the version of the current checked out branch and may not be able to resolve a cyclic dependency. To solve this problem, you can use the "Additional Behaviours" -> "Check out to specific local branch" in your Git-settings for your Jenkins-job, where your "local branch" shall be the same branch as you are checking out. Using this, the checkout will not be in detached state any more and cyclic dependency is recognized correctly.
2. Reason for failing is similar to the problem which can occur on travis-ci.org: The
git-clone / checkout within Jenkins leaves the branch in a "detached HEAD"-state. As
a result, Composer is not able to identify the version of the current checked out branch
and may not be able to resolve a cyclic dependency. To solve this problem, you can use
the "Additional Behaviours" -> "Check out to specific local branch" in your Git-settings
for your Jenkins-job, where your "local branch" shall be the same branch as you are
checking out. Using this, the checkout will not be in detached state any more and cyclic
dependency is recognized correctly.
## Need to override a package version