Getting started

You probably wanted to skip Getting started as we focus on the basic initiation of Composer Package. However, you may notice that letid/framework should be add and require in composer.json.

...
"require": {
    "letid/framework": "dev-master"
}
...

or for initiated Packages:

php composer require --prefer-dist letid/framework

Let's start initiate

php composer init

Package name(vendor/Name): home/app
Description: Application description  
Author: my Name  
Minimum Stability: dev  
Package Type: applications  
License: MIT  

Would you like to define your dependencies (require) interactively [yes]: yes  
Search for a package: letid  
Found 2 packages matching letid

[0] letid/framework
[1] letid/lethil  

Enter package # to add, or the complete package name if it is not listed: 0
Would you like to define your dependencies (require) interactively [yes]: no

{
    "name": "home/app",
    "description": "Application description",
    "type": "application",
    "require": {
        "letid/framework": "^1.0"
    },
    "license": "MIT",
    "authors": [
        {
            "name": "my Name",
            "email": "my@email.com"
        }
    ],
    "minimum-stability": "dev"
}

Do you confirm generation [yes]: yes

That's it, we are done with basic initiation of our composer package! We have noticed that in our working directory a file called composer.json was created!

Let's update Package

We have just created the basic configuration for the Package. it's tell what our package is all about and what are the requirement. Now we just need to give a command line to download/update.

php composer update

Again in our working directory, there is a folder called vendor was created. The vendor folder stored all our dependencies package and we may not need to backup or push this folder as we have sat our requirement in the configuration composer.json. Everytime we composer update composer will download all the dependencies if not downloaded. If downloaded and found a newer version it will automatically update to a newer version. This is the basic introduction of how composer can be flexible and convenient to our project as it's remove manual tasks such as dependencies install/update/remove.

How do we rename vendor folder?

In some cases we may wanted to rename the vendor folder. To do so we just need to add the following lines in composer.json and replace the vendor-dir's value with desire folder name.

...
"config": {
    "vendor-dir": "vendor"
}
...

Finally we are done initiating composer package with it's dependencies. Now it's the time to setup our Application.