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Composer is an opensource PHP packaging system to manage dependencies. This makes it easy to adapt package installs and updates to your workflow, allowing you to test new/updated packages in a development environment, put the changes in your version control system (git, Subversion, Mercurial, etc.), pull in those changes on a staging environment and, when approved, put it in production. |
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The following examples use a |
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Technical
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prerequisites
Composer requires PHP 5.3.2+ to run.
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Note: as usual with CLI, you can type: $> php composer.phar help [--xml] [--format="..."] [--raw] [command_name] to get the help of for the command. |
You On this page you will find on this page some useful commands and an extract of the Composer Documentation. The interesting options part is an extract of available options
show
The The show command displays detailed information about a package, or lists all available packages available.
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php composer.phar show [-i|--installed] [-p|--platform] [-a|--available] [-s|--self] [-N|--name-only] [-P|--path] [package] [version] |
require
The require command adds required packages to your composer.json and installs them. If you do not want to install the new dependencies immediately, you can call it with --no-update
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php composer.phar require [--dev] [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--no-progress] [--no-update] [--update-no-dev] [--update-with-dependencies] [packages1] ... [packagesN] |
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| --prefer-source | Forces installation from package sources when possible, including VCS information. |
| --prefer-dist | Forces installation from package dist even for dev versions. |
| --no-progress | Do not output download progress. |
| --no-update | Disables the automatic update of the dependencies. |
| --update-with-dependencies | Allows inherited dependencies to be updated with explicit dependencies. |
search
The The search command searches for packages by its name.
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$> php composer.phar search symfony composer |
can returns return to you a list like this:
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symfony/assetic-bundle Integrates Assetic into Symfony2 symfony/monolog-bundle Symfony MonologBundle ezsystems/ngsymfonytools-bundle Bundle of the legacy netgen/ngsymfonytools extension symfony-cmf/routing Extends the Symfony2 routing component for dynamic routes and chaining several routers doctrine/doctrine-bundle Symfony DoctrineBundle nelmio/cors-bundle Adds CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) headers support in your Symfony2 application tedivm/stash-bundle Incorporates the Stash caching library into Symfony. egulias/listeners-debug-command-bundle Symfony 2 console command to debug listeners hautelook/templated-uri-router Symfony2 RFC-6570 compatible router and URL Generator hautelook/templated-uri-bundle Symfony2 Bundle that provides a RFC-6570 compatible router and URL Generator. symfony/swiftmailer-bundle Symfony SwiftmailerBundle white-october/pagerfanta-bundle Bundle to use Pagerfanta with Symfony2 symfony/icu Contains an excerpt of the ICU data and classes to load it. symfony/symfony The Symfony PHP framework sensio/distribution-bundle The base bundle for the Symfony Distributions symfony/symfony The Symfony PHP framework symfony/console Symfony Console Component symfony/filesystem Symfony Filesystem Component symfony/finder Symfony Finder Component symfony/process Symfony Process Component symfony/yaml Symfony Yaml Component symfony/translation Symfony Translation Component symfony/debug Symfony Debug Component symfony/routing Symfony Routing Component symfony/icu Contains an excerpt of the ICU data to be used with symfony/intl. symfony/config Symfony Config Component symfony/validator Symfony Validator Component symfony/stopwatch Symfony Stopwatch Component symfony-cmf/symfony-cmf Symfony Content Management Framework |
validate
The The validate command validates a given composer.json.
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$> php composer.phar validate [--no-check-all] [file] |
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