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--- php:composer [2016/07/14 20:16] – mithat
+++ php:composer [2016/07/14 20:22] (current) – [Specify your dependencies] mithat
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 ====== Composer ======
-[[https://getcomposer.org/|Composer]] is a PHP dependency manager. In other words, you (the developer) specify in a configuration file what PHP packages you want to use in your project, and Composer will automagically download the package and any other packages needed by the packages you listed. It also will generate an autoload file, which when ''require''d in your PHP script will automagicallay load (i.e., include) all the packages it downloaded.
+[[https://getcomposer.org/|Composer]] is a PHP dependency manager. In other words, you (the developer) specify in a configuration file what PHP packages you want to use in your project, and Composer will automagically download the packages //as well as any other packages needed by the packages you listed//.
+It also will generate an ''autoload.php'' file, which when ''require''d or ''include''d in your PHP script will automagicallay load all the packages it downloaded and let you refer to them using a standard namespacing scheme.
 ===== Init =====
-The starting point is a file called ''composer.json'' that exists in the root of your project. You can manually create ''composer.json'' or you can issue <code bash>$ compser init</code> to have composer scaffold out a ''composer.json'' file for you. Once the composer.json has been scaffolded out, you'll have to manually edit it to change it.((TODO: Is this true? Is there a composer command than will download a package and automatically add it to ''composer.json''?))
+The starting point is a file called ''composer.json'' that exists in the root of your project. You can manually create ''composer.json'' or you can issue: <code bash>$ compser init</code> to have composer scaffold out a ''composer.json'' file for you.
+Once the ''composer.json'' file has been scaffolded out, you'll have to manually edit it to change it.((TODO: Is this true? Is there a composer command than will download a package and automatically add it to ''composer.json''?))
 ===== Specify your dependencies =====
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 }</code>
-you specify packages you want to use (hereafter referred to as "dependencies") as follows:
+you specify packages you want to use (hereafter referred to as **dependencies**) as follows:
+TODO
+===== Using what Composer downloaded =====
 TODO