Composer - Dependency Management for PHP

Composer helps you declare, manage and install dependencies of PHP projects, ensuring you have the right stack everywhere.

See https://getcomposer.org/ for more information and documentation.

Installation / Usage

1. Download the composer.phar executable or use the installer.

   $ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
   

2. 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 documentation.

   {
       "require": {
           "monolog/monolog": ">=1.0.0"
       }
   }
   

3. Run Composer: php composer.phar install

4. Browse for more packages on Packagist.

Global installation of Composer (manual)

Follow instructions in the documentation

Updating Composer

Running php composer.phar self-update or equivalent will update a phar install with the latest version.

Community

Mailing lists for user support and development.

IRC channels are on irc.freenode.org: #composer for users and #composer-dev for development.

Stack Overflow has a growing collection of Composer related questions.

Requirements

PHP 5.3.2 or above (at least 5.3.4 recommended to avoid potential bugs)

Authors

Nils Adermann - naderman@naderman.de - http://twitter.com/naderman - http://www.naderman.de
Jordi Boggiano - j.boggiano@seld.be - http://twitter.com/seldaek - http://seld.be

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

Composer is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgments

• This project's Solver started out as a PHP port of openSUSE's Libzypp satsolver.
• This project uses hiddeninput.exe to prompt for passwords on windows, sources and details can be found on the github page of the project.