ComposerCheatSheetfordevelopers

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Officialdocumentationisontheofficialwebsite,thispagejustbringsyoutheessential.
Onelineinstaller
curlsShttps://getcomposer.org/installer|php

composer.pharmostneededcommandline
$phpcomposer.pharrequirevendorname/packagename
$phpcomposer.pharinstall
$phpcomposer.pharupdate
$phpcomposer.pharupdatelock
$phpcomposer.phardumpautoloadoptimize

othercommands
$phpcomposer.pharabout
$phpcomposer.phararchive
$phpcomposer.pharbrowse
$phpcomposer.pharclearcache
$phpcomposer.pharconfiglist
$phpcomposer.pharcreateprojectsymfony/standardeditiondir/
$phpcomposer.phardependsvendorname/packagename
$phpcomposer.phardiagnose
$phpcomposer.pharglobal
$phpcomposer.pharhelp
$phpcomposer.pharinit
$phpcomposer.pharlicenses
$phpcomposer.pharlist
$phpcomposer.pharremove
$phpcomposer.pharrunscript
$phpcomposer.pharsearchmykeywords
$phpcomposer.pharselfupdate
$phpcomposer.pharshow
$phpcomposer.pharsuggest
$phpcomposer.pharstatus
$phpcomposer.pharvalidate

composer.jsonfile
{
"name":"vendorname/projectname",
"description":"Thisisaverycoolpackage!",
"version":"0.3.0",
"type":"library",
"keywords":["logging","cool","awesome"],
"homepage":"http://jolicode.com",
"time":"20121221",
"license":"MIT",
"authors":[
{
"name":"XavierLacot",
"email":"[email protected]",
"homepage":"http://www.lacot.org",
"role":"Developer"
},
{
"name":"BenjaminClay",
"email":"[email protected]",
"homepage":"https://github.com/ternel",
"role":"Developer"
}
],
"support":{
"email":"[email protected]",
"issues":"https://github.com/jolicode/jane/issues",
"forum":"http://www.myforum.com/",
"wiki":"http://www.mywiki.com/",
"irc":"irc://irc.freenode.org/composer",
"source":"https://github.com/jolicode/jane",

require
Addsrequiredpackagestoyourcomposer.json
andinstallsthem.
The

require

composer.json

commandaddsnewpackagestothe
filefromthecurrentdirectory.

Afteradding/changingtherequirements,the
modifiedrequirementswillbeinstalledorupdated.

"docs":"https://github.com/jolicode/jane/wiki"
},
"require":{
"monolog/monolog":"1.0.*",
"joli/ternel":"@dev",
"joli/ternelbundle":"@stable",
"joli/semver":"^2.0",
"joli/package":">=1.0<1.1",
"acme/foo":"devmaster#2eb0c097"
},
"requiredev":{
"debug/devonly":"1.0.*"
},
"conflict":{
"anothervendor/conflict":"1.0.*"
},
"replace":{
"debug/devonly":"1.0.*"
},
"provide":{
"debug/devonly":"1.0.*"
},
"suggest":{
"jolicode/gifexceptionbundle":"Forfun!"
},
"autoload":{
"psr4":{
"Monolog\\":"src/",
"Vendor\\Namespace\\":""
},
"psr0":{
"Monolog":"src/",
"Vendor\\Namespace":["src/","lib/"],
"Pear_Style":"src/",
"":"src/"
},
"classmap":["src/","lib/","Something.php"],
"files":["src/MyLibrary/functions.php"]
},
"autoloaddev":{
"psr0":{
"MyPackage\\Tests":"test/"
}
},
"targetdir":"Symfony/Component/Yaml",
"minimumstability":"stable",
"repositories":[
{
"type":"composer",
"url":"http://packages.example.com"
},
{
"type":"vcs",
"url":"https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog"
},
{
"type":"pear",
"url":"http://pear2.php.net"
},
{
"type":"package",
"package":{
"name":"smarty/smarty",
"version":"3.1.7",
"dist":{
"url":"http://www.smarty.net/Smarty3.1.7.zip",
"type":"zip"
},
"source":{
"url":"http://smartyphp.googlecode.com/svn/",
"type":"svn",
"reference":"tags/Smarty_3_1_7/distribution/"
}
}
},
{

"type":"artifact",
"url":"path/to/directory/with/zips/"
},
{
"type":"path",
"url":"../../packages/mypackage"
}
],
"config":{
"processtimeout":300,
"useincludepath":false,
"preferredinstall":"auto",
"storeauths":"prompt",
"githubprotocols":["git","https","http"],
"githuboauth":{"github.com":"oauthtoken"},
"gitlaboauth":{"gitlab.com":"oauthtoken"},
"githubdomains":["entreprisegithub.me.com"],
"gitlabdomains":["entreprisegitlab.me.com"],
"githubexposehostname":true,
"disabletls":false,
"cafile":"/var/certif.ca",
"capath":"/var/",
"httpbasic":{"me.io":{"username":"foo","password":"bar"},
"platform":{"php":"5.4","extsomething":"4.0"},
"vendordir":"vendor",
"bindir":"bin",
"datadir":"/home/ternel/here",
"cachedir":"$home/cache",
"cachefilesdir":"$cachedir/files",
"cacherepodir":"$cachedir/repo",
"cachevcsdir":"$cachedir/vcs",
"cachefilesttl":15552000,
"cachefilesmaxsize":"300MiB",
"bincompat":"auto",
"prependautoloader":true,
"autoloadersuffix":"pony",
"optimizeautoloader":false,
"sortpackages":false,
"classmapauthoritative":false,
"notifyoninstall":true,
"discardchanges":false,
"archiveformat":"tar",
"archivedir":"."
},
"archive":{
"exclude":["/foo/bar","baz","/*.test","!/foo/bar/baz"]
},
"preferstable":true,
"scripts":{
"preinstallcmd":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doSomething",
"postinstallcmd":[
"MyVendor\\MyClass::warmCache",
"phpunitcapp/"
],
"preupdatecmd":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doSomething",
"postupdatecmd":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doSomething",
"prestatuscmd":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doSomething",
"poststatuscmd":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doSomething",
"prepackageinstall":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doSomething",
"postpackageinstall":[
"MyVendor\\MyClass::postPackageInstall"
],
"prepackageupdate":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doSomething",
"postpackageupdate":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doSomething",
"prepackageuninstall":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doSomething",
"postpackageuninstall":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doSomething",
"preautoloaddump":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doSomething",
"postautoloaddump":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doSomething",
"postrootpackageinstall":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doStuff",
"postcreateprojectcmd":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doThis",
"prearchivecmd":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doSomething",
"postarchivecmd":"MyVendor\\MyClass::doSomething",
},
"extra":{"key":"value"},
"bin":["./bin/toto"]
}

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