Composer Download on Windows

Overview

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. We can download it from the official website. Composer is licensed under the MIT license.

Official Website: https://getcomposer.org/

Download

Download Composer-Setup.exe

Composer Install Windows

Save the file on the computer.

Composer Setup.exe Windows

Install

Double click on the Composer-Setup.exe

Composer Installation Options

Click on the Next buttons and complete the Install wizard.

Click the Finish button to complete the install.

Composer will create files to handle the configuration and dependency information.

composer.json
composer.lock

The lock file locks the dependencies of your project to a known state of the project.

Sample composer.json

{
    "config": {
        "platform": {
            "php": "7.4.2"
        }
    },
    "require": {
        "php-http/guzzle6-adapter": "^1.0",
        "slim/slim": "4.0",
        "slim/psr7": "^1.1",
        "nyholm/psr7": "^1.2",
        "nyholm/psr7-server": "^0.4.1",
        "guzzlehttp/psr7": "^1.6",
        "http-interop/http-factory-guzzle": "^1.0",
        "laminas/laminas-diactoros": "^2.2",
        "adodb/adodb-php": "^5.20",
        "phpmailer/phpmailer": "^6.1",
        "smarty/smarty": "^3.1",
        "psr/log": "^1.1",
        "symfony/polyfill-mbstring": "^1.15",
        "league/oauth2-client": "^2.4",
        "omines/oauth2-gitlab": "^3.2",
        "league/oauth2-github": "^2.0",
        "league/oauth2-google": "^3.0",
        "slim/http": "^1.0"
    }
}

All the dependencies source files would be downloaded into a folder called vendor at the project root folder. The sample folder for the TestLink application is shown below. (https://www.testingdocs.com/testlink-installation-on-windows/)

Vendor folder Composer