1. Composer
Advanced Repository
Management

2. Who Am I?

CTO/Founder of Pamiris, Inc.

Extensive NPO board service

Overseen payroll conversions
& HRIS implementations with
over 600 employees

BBA, MIS from EWU 2004
(manga cum laude, BGS)

3. Composer: Dependencies
managed for PHP
- Manage dependencies
- Publish components/frameworks
- Auto-magic wiring
- Everything is a package

4. Composer: way too easy
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer
| php
$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
$ composer require “vendor/package”

5. Composer: repositories
● Packagist
● Toran Proxy
● Satis
● VCS (git, mercurial, subversion)
● PEAR (yes, really)

6. Composer: packagist
http://packagist.org

7. Composer: packagist

8. Toran Proxy
http://toranproxy.com

9. Toran Proxy
● Much faster
● More reliable
● Turn-key
● Supports one of the composer founders
● Costs $45/mo for 5 devs

10. Satis
● http://github.com/composer/satis
● Self managed
● Relatively easy to install
● As fast as you make it
● Requires maintenance of
composer.json and cron scripting

11. VCS Repositories
● Any modern version control
● Gitolite, private github with SSH keys
● Smart overriding: fork and pull
"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "https://github.com/bryanagee/FOSUserBundle"
}
]

12. PEAR
Yes, it is possible.
No, you shouldn't do it.