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Install Composer

Composer is a dependency management tool for your PHP projects.

  1. Install PHP5 CLI

     $ sudo apt-get install php5-cli

  2. Get the Composer installer

     $ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

  3. Move to a global directory so that all projects can simply use the composer install commands

     $ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Using Composer

To install dependencies, first go to the project folder

    $ cd /var/www/project
    $ composer install

For existing projects with updated dependencies

    $ composer update
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