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redhataccess/composer-api
=========================

Pack of functions for interfacing with composer

2.0.x-dev(3y ago)00MITPHPPHP ^7.4 || ^8.0

Since May 23Pushed 3y agoCompare

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CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
---------------------

[](#contents-of-this-file)

- Introduction
- Requirements
- Installation
- Configuration
- Usage
    - Example

INTRODUCTION
------------

[](#introduction)

The Composer API package provides utilities for using Composer from PHP scripts.

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REQUIREMENTS
------------

[](#requirements)

This package has no requirements outside of Composer.

INSTALLATION
------------

[](#installation)

- Install as you would normally install a Composer package. Visit  for further information.

CONFIGURATION
-------------

[](#configuration)

The package has no configurable settings. Installing or uninstalling it should have no side effects.

USAGE
-----

[](#usage)

Initialization:

```
$composer = Composer::getInstance('path/to/root/composer.json', 'path/to/root');

```

Returns `Composer\Composer` object:

```
$composer::getComposer();

```

Returns array with `PackageInterface` objects (array with all installed packages, without bower, npm, etc from `fxp/composer-asset-plugin`):

```
$composer::getLocalPackages();

```

Find package by full name and version:

```
$composer::findPackage($name, $version);

```

Find package by string:

```
$composer::searchPackage($query);

```

Update package by name or all packages with [console options](https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#update):

```
$composer::updatePackage($name, $options);
$composer::updateAllPackages($options);

```

Delete package by name or all packages with [console options](https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#remove):

```
$composer::deletePackage($name, $options);
$composer::deleteAllPackages($options);

```

Run any composer [commands](https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md):

```
$composer::runCommand($command, $options);

```

### Example

[](#example)

You can see the work of the component on the example of yii2 module - [bookin/yii2-composer-gui](https://github.com/bookin/yii2-composer-gui)

###  Health Score

18

—

LowBetter than 8% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity0

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity40

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 65.5% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

1455d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6a1f2fd07ef926c7d668018eed3327f693585593bbc2c74569cb6e036cbb850a?d=identicon)[alexdmccabe](/maintainers/alexdmccabe)

---

Top Contributors

[![alexdmccabe](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6988721?v=4)](https://github.com/alexdmccabe "alexdmccabe (19 commits)")[![bookin](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/537882?v=4)](https://github.com/bookin "bookin (10 commits)")

---

Tags

composerphp

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