Welcome to the wonderful world of Composer - the Dependency Manager for PHP!
In this Screencast, you'll learn how to install and configure Composer and use it to integrate third-party libraries into any PHP project (even something like Wordpress!). This includes:
- How Composer makes sharing awesome again
- Downloading the composer.phar file
- Creating the composer.json file
- Installing the external libraries
- Handling autoloading
- Understanding the composer.lock file
- The update versus install command
- The require command
- Storing in version control
Let's go!