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How to install Composer in Windows

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I wanted to install PHP Composer in Windows. And to begin, I already have a copy of XAMPP 1.8.1, I think if you have a different way to get your PHP that should not matter. I tested this to work for Windows 7 but it should work for all versions of Windows.

0. Download and install XAMPP

You can download XAMPP here. I got the 7zip version rather than the installer itself. The ZIP version is similar, just with a larger file size. I extract the xampp folder into my C: drive, i.e. to C:\xampp. Then install it by opening the file C:\xampp\setup_xampp.bat. That will set the paths in XAMPP’s configurations.

1. Setting up environment variables

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Composer, a package manager for PHP

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Composer is probably a bad name for a package manager in the sense where it is hard to research online by searching on the keyword ‘composer’ without receiving Beethoven as part of results. The composer I am referring to is this. Composer is a package manager tracking local dependencies of your projects and libraries.

Composer lets you specify your dependencies in a composer.json file looks like this:

{
    "require": {
        "doctrine/common": "2.1.*",
        "monolog/monolog": ">=1.0,<1.2-dev",
        "swiftmailer/swiftmailer": ">=4.1.2,<4.2-dev",
        "twig/twig": ">=1.1,<2.0-dev"
    }
}

This file will install the components into the a vendor folder on the directory where you execute the following:

php composer.phar install