PHP Composer : Manage Package Dependency in PHP

What’s a PHP composer? How to use PHP composer in your PHP Application? What are the benefits of using composer in your application?

PHP Composer is a dependency manager. It manages the dependency of PHP packages in your application. Using composer you can pull the required library and dependencies and manage them in one place. The concept of a composer is similar to npm in node.js and gem in Ruby.

Let’s first understand what is a dependency.