Belgian living in Zürich, Switzerland

Building the internet for 10+ years
 http://seld.be

Symfony2, Composer and other OSS contributions
 http://github.com/Seldaek

Working at Nelmio
 http://nelm.io
 Symfony2 & performance consulting

Installing and Updating dependencies

install/update work on the project's dependencies

composer installs or updates individual packages

Using a forked project

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/Seldaek/symfony"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "symfony/symfony": "dev-master"
    }
}
            

Additional repositories take priority over the default ones

Using a forked project

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/Seldaek/symfony"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "symfony/symfony": "dev-my-patch"
    }
}
            

Your branches are available as well

Use composer show -v symfony/symfony to see available versions

Using a forked project

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/Seldaek/symfony"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "symfony/symfony": "dev-my-patch as 2.1.0"
    }
}
            

Private packages with Satis

composer.json

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/nelmio/NelmioSecretBundle"
        },
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/nelmio/lib"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "nelmio/secret-bundle": "1.*",
        "nelmio/lib": "1.5.3"
    }
}
            

Private packages with Satis

satis.json

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/nelmio/NelmioSecretBundle"
        },
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/nelmio/lib"
        }
    ]
}
            

composer create-project composer/satis myrepo
cd myrepo
bin/satis build satis.json www/
            

Private packages with Satis

composer.json

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "http://satis.example.org/"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "nelmio/secret-bundle": "1.*",
        "nelmio/lib": "1.5.3"
    }
}
            

Private packages with Satis

Set-up a system-wide repository

Unix: /home/example/.composer/config.json

Windows: C:\Users\example\AppData\Roaming\Composer\config.json

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "http://satis.example.org/"
        }
    ]
}
            

Use composer config -g -e to open the file

Private packages with Satis

composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "nelmio/secret-bundle": "1.*",
        "nelmio/lib": "1.5.3"
    }
}
            

Deploying/building with Composer

COMMIT your lock file

$ composer install --no-dev
            

503 from GitHub when downloading zips?

Install from source instead

$ composer install --prefer-source