Composer is PHP’s most commonly used dependency manager. It’s analogous to npm
in Node, pip
for Python, or NuGet
for .NET.
Parameter | Details | —— | —— | license | Defines the type of license you want to use in the Project. | authors | Defines the authors of the project, as well as the author details. | support | Defines the support emails, irc channel, and various links. | require | Defines the actual dependencies as well as the package versions. | require-dev | Defines the packages necessary for developing the project. | suggest | Defines the package suggestions, i.e. packages which can help if installed. | autoload | Defines the autoloading policies of the project. | autoload-dev | Defines the autoloading policies for developing the project. |
Autoloading will only work for libraries that specify autoload information. Most libraries do and will adhere to a standard such as PSR-0 or PSR-4.
root
. Packages are not to be trusted.