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winter/packager
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Run Composer commands within a PHP application

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Packager
========

[](#packager)

Run Composer commands and execute Composer searches and queries within a PHP application. This library acts as a PHP wrapper for Composer commands, allowing package management through PHP, and uses a combination of Composer, the Packagist API and your own project lockfile to derive information about the packages installed or available.

You technically *do not* need Composer to be installed, as this library will bring in the Composer application as a dependency - however, you will need Composer to install this library itself.

Use case
--------

[](#use-case)

This library was written initially to provide Composer usage through PHP for [Winter CMS](https://github.com/wintercms/winter), to power its upgrade and plugin architecture. A portion of the Winter CMS user-base prefer web-based installation methods and prefer not to (or simply can't) use the command-line Composer application.

This library therefore leverages the power of Composer in maintaining dependencies and does so in a way that can be programatically controlled and presented in a friendlier format for these users.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Install via Composer:

```
composer require winter/packager

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

This library currently provides support for the following Composer commands:

- `install`
- `search`
- `show`
- `update`
- `require`
- `remove`
- `version` **(--version)**

You can create a `Composer` instance in your PHP script and run these commands like so, defining a working directory which contains a `composer.json` file, and a home directory in which cached packages are stored.

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