0 - Introduction:
Composer is a dependency management tool in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage them for you.
composer doesn't install/manage packages globally on the system but it manages them per project by installing them on the vendor directory.
Here the 5 steps to install composer on MACOS:
1 - Run the following command to download Composer setup on MacOS :
Composer is a dependency management tool in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage them for you.
composer doesn't install/manage packages globally on the system but it manages them per project by installing them on the vendor directory.
Here the 5 steps to install composer on MACOS:
1 - Run the following command to download Composer setup on MacOS :
$ sudo php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer','composer-setup.php');"
2 - Check the installer hash :
php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '906a84df04cea2aa72f40b5f787e49f22d4c2f19492ac310e8cba5b96ac8b64115ac402c8cd292b8a03482574915d1a8') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
3 - run the composer setup
php composer-setup.php
4 - Move Composer.phar to /usr/bin/composer
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
5 - Run Composer
now composer installed in our system, just type composer on your terminal and you will get prompt help
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