Installing Composer on Mac OSX

Composer is a dependency management tool for php projects. By using composer, you can just declare the dependecy in your project and composer will handle/download this for you.
Unlike yum or apt -in linux distros, composer manages the pacakge per project basis. However, it does not install anything globally, but everything required for a particular project.

Composer may got some inspiration from the node’s npm package manager.  Composer needs at least PHP 5.3.2 in your system/server.

So today’s tutorial we are showing how to install Composer in Mac OS.

1. Open a your terminal and navigate to your Users directory.

   You can use below command to go to users directory from anywhere.

   cd ~

   then move to

   cd /Users/[your username]>

2. Run the below command to download Composer to your system. This will create a Phar (PHP Archive) file in the selected directory.

   curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

3. Now we need to move composer.phar file to a directory, to access globally.

   sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/

4. Next, change the permission of Composer to run as root user. Run the below command.

   sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/composer.phar

5. Next, we need to update Bash file to set which location to find our Composer.

   nano ~/.bash_profile

6. Add this line below to bash_profile and save

   alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer.phar"

7. and then we will run the below to read and execute.

   source ~/.bash_profile

8. At last step, run

   composer -v

    

If everything went smooth and staring you will see a output similar to below.



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