diff --git a/_posts/04-02-01-Composer-and-Packagist.md b/_posts/04-02-01-Composer-and-Packagist.md index ff532b8..9f3fa27 100644 --- a/_posts/04-02-01-Composer-and-Packagist.md +++ b/_posts/04-02-01-Composer-and-Packagist.md @@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ You can install Composer locally (in your current working directory; though this This will download `composer.phar` (a PHP binary archive). You can run this with `php` to manage your project dependencies. Please Note: If you pipe downloaded code directly into an interpreter, please read the code online first to confirm it is safe. +#### Installing on Windows +For Windows users the easiest way to get up and running is to use the [ComposerSetup][6] installer, which performs a global install and sets up your `$PATH` so that you can just call `composer` from any directory in your command line. + ### How to Install Composer (manually) Manually installing Composer is an advanced technique; however, there are various reasons why a developer might prefer this method vs. using the interactive installation routine. The interactive installation checks your PHP installation to ensure that: @@ -81,4 +84,5 @@ The [Security Advisories Checker][4] is a web service and a command-line tool, b [3]: https://www.versioneye.com/ [4]: https://security.sensiolabs.org/ [5]: http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md +[6]: https://getcomposer.org/Composer-Setup.exe