You're reading from The Art of Modern PHP 8 Learn how to write modern, performant, and enterprise-ready code with the latest PHP features and practices

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800566156

Length 420 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

MySQL

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Joseph Edmonds

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – PHP 8 OOP

2. Chapter 1: Object-Oriented PHP FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Inheritance and Composition, Encapsulation and Visibility, Interfaces and Concretions

4. Chapter 3: Advanced OOP Features

5. Section 2 – PHP Types

6. Chapter 4: Scalar, Arrays, and Special Types

7. Chapter 5: Object Types, Interfaces, and Unions

8. Chapter 6: Parameter, Property, and Return Types

9. Section 3 – Clean PHP 8 Patterns and Style

10. Chapter 7: Design Patterns and Clean Code

11. Chapter 8: Model, View, Controller (MVC) Example

12. Chapter 9: Dependency Injection Example

13. Section 4 – PHP 8 Composer Package Management (and PHP 8.1)

14. Chapter 10: Composer For Dependencies

15. Chapter 11: Creating Your Own Composer Package

16. Section 5 – Bonus Section - PHP 8.1

17. Chapter 12: The Awesomeness That Is 8.1

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Composer to require packages

So, now that you have an idea of what dependencies are, what dependency management and resolution are all about, and have also understood the benefits of autoloading, it's time to start using Composer.

I assume you have already installed Composer, but if not, here is the link again:

Introduction – Composer

https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-linux-unix-macos

Finding dependencies

The primary source of packages for Composer-based projects is a website called Packagist:

Packagist

https://packagist.org/

This is the default "repository" that Composer searches when looking for packages that are defined as dependencies.

At the time of writing, Packagist contains over 300,000 packages, with 2.8 million versions available. Chances are, if you need something, then there is a package for it.

The initial mechanism for discovering packages is to simply search on Packagist; for example:

Packagist...