Requirements to Install ComposerĬomposer is a PHP dependency manager therefore it is required that you must have already installed PHP on your Windows before installing of Composer. Packagist is the main Composer repository, where you can find expressive collection of PHP libraries that are available through Composer. It is very useful and effective tool of PHP development. It helps to Install and update required libraries of your application.

What is Composer?Ī composer is a PHP dependency manager, it is a tool that is very useful to manage your application dependencies. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install composer on Windows in a real quick and also explain that what is a composer and the benefits of using composer. And finally, start Xampp and voila~ there you go to start using PhpWord.If you want to know how to install Composer on Windows 10 / 11, then you have come to the right place. If you're using VS Code editor, I found an interesting youtbe video which using the terminal function in vscode and install PhpWord using composer directly in vscode. You can use command prompt to move to your project directory, init composer and start install PhpWord. Once you got composer installed, you can actually use composer directly in the command prompt. Here a more detail reference of installing both Xampp and Composer in Windows with image guideline that I used. Download the installer and install it as written in the documentation. Finally start Xampp and you can now use PhpWord.

Once you got composer installed, just move to your project directory, init composer and start install PhpWord composer require phpoffice/phpword. I believe there are tons of example which will teach you how to install composer in your Linux OS.

The installation in Linux is pretty straight forward as written in the Composer documentation, else you can just type in Google Search: How to install composer in your-linux-OS (CentOS, Ubuntu, etc). Myself using Xampp in Windows to development one of my open source project which using PhpWord and PhpSpreadsheet library.įrom latest PhpWord documentation, it says the installation need to be done via Composer.

Xampp install composer