Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the dependent libraries your project needs and it will install them in your project for you.

This is a CakePHP plugin to use Composer conveniently with your CakePHP project.

There is no need to pre-install Composer. This plugin will automatically download the latest version if Composer is not installed at your system.

CakePHP v2.x

1. Download the plugin and place it at APP/Plugin/Composer.

   cd APP/Plugin
   git clone git://github.com/uzyn/cakephp-composer.git Composer

2. Load the plugin by adding this line to the bottom of your app's Config/bootstrap.php:

   <?php
   CakePlugin::load('Composer', array('bootstrap' => true));

3. That's all! Composer is ready for use.

   composer.json is located at APP/composer.json. It is automatically created if it is not found. Packages are installed to APP/Vendor as per CakePHP convention. Invoke Composer from command line with Console/cake composer.c.

   For example, to install opauth/opauth using Composer's require command.

   cd APP
   Console/cake composer.c require opauth/opauth:0.*

   To install packages defined at composer.json

   Console/cake composer.c install

4. This plugin also makes use of Composer's autoloader. Start using a Composer-loaded classes right away without needing require(), include() or App::import().

   For example, to instantiate a new Opauth object, simply instantiate Opauth from anywhere in your CakePHP application:

   <?php
   $Opauth = new Opauth();

To run the plugin non-interactively, especially to automatically install composer.phar (see #8), you can include --yes or -y option, eg. Console/cake composer.c install -y.

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