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PHP Building Websites with PHP Dependency Management Introducing Composer

Posted by Hemadri Sen
Hemadri Sen
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How to use Composer in Mac

This workspace is so confusing when I am trying to build a website with Sublime Text locally. I have installed composer on my mac but I am lost on how to create the composer.json file and update it using the command line.

Main problem is I can't connect the command line with the htdocs. If someone can help with that, it would be greatly appreciated.

3 Answers

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
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thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

You can create the composer.json file manually, or go right ahead and let composer do it for you :)

if you go to terminal and 'cd' to the directory where you want your project to be e.g.

cd ~/Projects/my-test-project/

When you're there type

composer init

You should then be prompted to fill in a whole bunch of stuff, most of which you can leave empty (composer will use sensible defaults). Once set up, you'll need to do

composer install

and you should be ready to go!

If you haven't installed composer globally, you might get an error when you type 'composer init'. If you need help installing composer locally, just let us all know. You can also work through using the composer docs

Hemadri Sen
Hemadri Sen
8,621 Points
Hemadri Sen
Hemadri Sen
8,621 Points

Hello Tom, I created a folder on my desktop and it worked, i was able to create everything that was explained in the video but I cannot access to the default folder in MAMP directory. I tried the following command but it did not work:

cd applications/mamp/htdocs

Please let me know how can I select the htdocs file from the terminal? thanks

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points
thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

It sounds like you're not looking in the right place :)

Generally speaking, MAMP sits in the Applications folder that sits in the route directory.

Unless you're already in the root directory, this won't work:

cd applications/mamp/htdocs

You will probably need to add a leading '/'

cd /applications/mamp/htdocs

You can always get a mac to autocomplete a directory by hitting the tab key a few times.

Also, be aware that sometimes caps matter - is it /mamp/ or /MAMP/?