Composer

Pro Tips

By Rob Loach / @RobLoach

October 21st, 2016 - BADCamp, 2016

Rob Loach

robloach.net / @RobLoach / GitHub

Kalamuna

Dependency Hell

  • Copy and Paste all modules
  • Can miss a dependency
  • Include individual PHP files
  • Difficult to upgrade
  • Version-conflicts

Welcome Composer

  • Installs full dependency trees
  • Resolves version constraints
  • PHP Autoloading
  • Easily upgrade all dependencies

Install Composer

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'e115a8dc7871f15d853148a7fbac7da27d6c0030b848d9b3dc09e2a0388afed865e6a3d6b3c0fad45c48e2b5fc1196ae') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

getcomposer.org

Using Composer

composercomposer initcomposer installcomposer require symfony/yaml

Using Composer

In PHP

require 'vendor/autoload.php';use Symfony\Component\Yaml\Yaml;$value = Yaml::parse(file_get_contents('file.yml'));

Composer Global

User-based dependencies 

composer global require drush/drushcomposer global exec drushexport PATH=$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bindrushcomposer global require composer/composer

Composer Global Require

github.com/consolidation/cgr

Cleans up some of the require paths for global dependencies

By Good ol' Greg Anderson

Composer Versions Check

composer global require sllh/composer-versions-checkcomposer update1 package is not up to date:
- symfony/yaml (3.0.1) latest is 3.1.5

Composer Scripts

{
  "name": "mycomposer",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "behat",
    "awesometime": "echo 'Hello World'"
  }
}
composer test--- Runs Behat! composer awesometime--- Hello World

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Thank You

Now go use Composer