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Installing PHP Composer on CentOS 7

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Composer (https://getcomposer.org/) is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows

you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for
you.

Composer is not a package manager in the same sense as Yum or Apt is. Although it deals with
"packages" or libraries, it manages them on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory
(e.g. vendor) inside your project. By default, it does not install anything globally. Thus, it is a
dependency manager.

In this guide, we will install PHP Composer on CentOS 7.

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Updating System Packages

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Next, install the PHP Command Line Interface package and other dependencies by issuing the
command below:

sudo yum install php-cli php-zip wget unzip

After installing the PHP CLI package, proceed to download the Composer installer script by
issuing the command below:

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer (https://getcomposer.org/installe

r)', 'composer-setup.php');"

We can verify the data integrity of the downloaded script by comparing the script SHA-384 hash
with the latest installer hash found on the Composer Public Keys/Signatures page.

Issue the command below:

HASH="$(wget -q -O - https://composer.github.io/installer.sig (https://composer.gi

thub.io/installer.sig))"

Next, issue the command below to verify that the installation script is not corrupted run the
following command:

php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '$HASH') { echo 'Install

er verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } e
cho PHP_EOL;"

Lastly, we can now issue the following command to install Composer in the /usr/local/bin
directory:

sudo php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

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You can also issue the command "composer" to print Composer’s version, commands, and
arguments as shown below:

You can read the o cial Composer documentation (https://getcomposer.org/doc/) for more
information on Composer.

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