Installing composer

Before you can start managing your projects dependencies with composer you first need to install it.

To install composer you can follow the instructions on the download page: https://getcomposer.org/download/

To install composer globally on a Linux system (recommended) we need to do one step from the instructions a little bit different.

The instructions tell us to execute the following:

$ php composer-setup.php

It is recommended to execute the following instead:

$ php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer