Composer (software)

Composer is an application-level dependency manager for the PHP programming language that provides a standard format for managing dependencies of PHP software and required libraries. It was developed by Nils Adermann and Jordi Boggiano, who continue to manage the project. They began development in April 2011 and first released it on March 1, 2012.Software release, github.com, Retrieved April 24, 2016. Composer is strongly inspired by Node.js's "npm" and Ruby's "bundler".Getting Started/Dependency management, getcomposer.org, Retrieved November 28, 2013. The project's dependency solving algorithm started out as a PHP-based port of openSUSE's libzypp SAT solver.

Composer runs from the command line and installs dependencies (e.g. libraries) for an application. It also allows users to install PHP applications that are available on "Packagist"See packagist.org which is its main repository containing available packages. It also provides autoload capabilities for libraries that specify autoload information to ease usage of third-party code.

Supported frameworks

Symfony version 2 and later Laravel version 5 and later CodeIgniter version 3.0 and later CakePHP version 3.0 and later FuelPHP version 2.0 and later Drupal version 8 and later TYPO3 version 6.2 and later Neos Flow version 2.0 and later Silverstripe version 3.0 later Magento version 2.0 later OpenMage version 20.0.0 and later Yii version 1.1 and later Laminas Silex (web framework) Lumen (web framework) Adianti Framework version 1 and later

See also List of PHP software and tools PEAR

References

External links

Composer on GitHub Composer documentation Composer Tutorial Packagist - the main Composer repository