Installing Composer

Composer is the dependency manager for PHP. It is required to install and manage the packages your Laravel application depends on.

✅ Latest stable version: v2.9.7

Before installing Composer, make sure PHP is installed on your server. Refer to the Installation Guide for instructions.

1. Download & Install

Run the following script in your terminal to download and verify the installer:

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'c8b085408188070d5f52bcfe4ecfbee5f727afa458b2573b8eaaf77b3419b0bf2768dc67c86944da1544f06fa544fd47') { echo 'Installer verified'.PHP_EOL; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'.PHP_EOL; unlink('composer-setup.php'); exit(1); }"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

This will download the latest composer.phar into your current directory.

2. Install Globally

Move the binary to your PATH so composer is available from any directory:

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

Verify the installation:

composer --version

3. Install Project Dependencies

Navigate to your project root and run:

composer install

⚠️ Use composer install — not composer update — in production to respect the locked versions in composer.lock.