Cheatsheet for Composer

Reference

• https://getcomposer.org/doc/

Download & Install composer locally

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '8a6138e2a05a8c28539c9f0fb361159823655d7ad2deecb371b04a83966c61223adc522b0189079e3e9e277cd72b8897') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

Check composer version

./composer.phar --version

Create a new project based on existing repository

./composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel .

Make directory writable within the Laravel application

1) storage
2) bootstrap/cache