How to Install Composer on Windows with XAMPP

Now-a-days, many modern php frameworks like laravel, symfony, codeigniter and other libraries use the composer to manage their dependencies. So you need composer to install them on your machine. In case you don't know, Composer is the tool for dependency management in php . It allows you to declare the dependency libraries and packages required for a project and it will install, update and manage them for you. Composer will never maintain anything globally by default but rather on per-project basis. You need PHP 5.3.2 and above to use Composer. So make sure the system requirements are met before installing it on your machine. In addition, you must also make some changes to the php settings to make it work. Change Settings on php.ini: I hope you have XAMPP installed already on your machine. So before composer installation, do the following changes on your php.ini file. Go to [path-to-xampp]/php folder and open php.ini file. Locate the below lines one by one and remove th...