Composer QuickStart for Mac 10.12 Sierra

This is Short Tutorial Shows You Step-by-step How-to Install the PHP Composer on Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra BSD/Unix.

Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you.

Composer Manages Packages or Libraries on a per-project basis, Installing them in a directory Inside your Project.

1. Open a Terminal Shell Emulator
   Applications > Utilities > Terminal
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

2. Downloading PHP Composer
   Here is described a System wide Installation, for a Local one adapt the commands accordingly.

   sudo php -r "copy('http://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"

   If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then Look: Solution
   Verify the Download:

   sudo php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'e115a8dc7871f15d853148a7fbac7da27d6c0030b848d9b3dc09e2a0388afed865e6a3d6b3c0fad45c48e2b5fc1196ae') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"

   Then Install Composer:

   sudo php composer-setup.php

   Clean up:

   sudo php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

3. Relocating Composer

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

4. Testing Composer Installation

   composer -V

   The Command will Shows up the Composer Version…