What is PHP Composer, and how to install it on Ubuntu, An example of installing a package is provided

1. How to install and use composer on
Ubuntu
By: Mohanad Shab Kaleia

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Outline
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What is composer
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What is dependencies manager
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How to install composer
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How to install a package using composer
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Update an available package

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What is Composer
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Composer is a dependencies management
tool for PHP,
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Used to install packages, libraries, ..etc
needed for the project
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Free and opensource
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https://getcomposer.org/

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What is dependencies manager?!
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Manage your project’s packages and
libraries,
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Packages Version compatibility between all
team members
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It take care of download, update needed
packages,

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Install Composer on Ubuntu
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Step1 – installing the dependencies
– sudo apt-get install curl php5-cli git
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Step 2 – download and install Composer
– curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo
php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin
--filename=composer
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Step 3 – check if it installed successfully
– $ composer

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Install a package
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First what is the package you want to install?
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http://packagist.org
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For example we will use Slugify package
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Slug: URL-friendly version
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Run in the terminal:
– $ composer require cocur/slugify

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Include the package into your project
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

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Update!
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Update included packages:
– composer update

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