PHP Composer Tutorial | Installing and Setting Up Composer in Windows Using Command Prompt

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To install Composer on Windows using the command line, you will need to have PHP installed on your computer. Once you have PHP installed, open the Command Prompt and navigate to the directory where you want to install Composer. Then, run the following command:

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

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

This will download the Composer installer to your current directory. Next, run the following command to install Composer:

php composer-setup.php --install-dir=bin --filename=composer

1	php composer-setup.php --install-dir=bin --filename=composer

This command will install Composer in the “bin” directory and rename the installer file to “composer”. Finally, add the bin directory to your system’s PATH environment variable so that you can run Composer from any directory.

You can check if the installation is successful by running the following command:

composer

composer