Use Composer to Easily Manage PHP Packages

Learn how to use Composer to manage PHP packages and dependencies.
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Topics covered:
• What packages are in PHP
• Using Packagist to find packages
• Installing Composer
• Installing packages with Composer
• Installing specific package versions
• Using Composer version constraints
• composer.json and composer.lock
• The vendor folder
• Requiring packages only in development

Links shown in the video:
‣ getcomposer.org/
‣ packagist.org/
‣ www.php.net/
‣ www.apachefriends.org/
‣ semver.org/

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00:00 Introduction
00:13 What is a package?
01:17 Packagist
02:09 What is a dependency?
02:49 What is Composer?
03:10 Installing Composer
04:11 Installing packages
05:11 Composer's autoloader
06:10 Packages with dependencies
07:06 composer.json
08:14 composer update
08:33 Removing packages
09:06 Version constraints
10:21 Updating packages
11:37 composer.lock
12:05 Ignoring the vendor folder
12:59 update vs install
14:02 Development packages
15:21 Summary

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