Installing and configuring 

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Composer

Composer is the dependency manager used by modern PHP applications and it can also be used to create new applications based on the Symfony Framework. 

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Installing Composer globally

  1. Download the installer and run it: https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-windows
  2. The wizard indicates the path pointing to: C:\xampp\php\php.exe
  3. Keep going until you set the PATH
  4. Ready to run!

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Creating a Symfony application

Execute the create-project command to create: 

 

Assigns default values...

Executing this command to run the application:

 

Then, open your browser and access the:

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composer create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition project_name
php app/console server:run
http://localhost:8000/app/example

Updating Symfony applications

Execute the update command to update them all at once: 

 

You can see how all the dependencies are updated:

 

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composer update

UT1. Installing and configuring Symfony

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