Composer is a dependency manager for PHP.
Similar to nodes NPM and Python’s “pip” dependency manager, Composer handles the installation of any third party module included within composer.json.
First check your PHP version by running the following command
// get version
php -v
// should give you the following result or similar
PHP 5.6.36 (cli) (built: Apr 30 2018 20:24:54)
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies
cd ~/ vi .bash_profile // in .bash_profile insert the following export PATH=/usr/local/php56/bin:$PATH
The phprc file
Find your PHP version and insert the following the following snippet of code.
cd ~/.php vi 5.6/phprc // insert into phprc extension = phar.so suhosin.executor.include.whitelist = phar
Now you can run the following command:
php composer.phar <command>