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--- php:composer [2016/07/14 20:18] – 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 //s well as any other packages needed by the packages you listed//.
+[[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 file, which when ''require''d or ''include''d in your PHP file will automagicallay load (i.e., include) all the packages Composer downloaded.
+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