Installation

Prerequisites

Linux for Composer runs in the default Docker environment of each supported platform (operating system).

• All platforms:

  • Docker (https://www.docker.com/)
  • Composer (https://getcomposer.org/)
  • Git (https://git-scm.com/)
  • cURL (https://curl.haxx.se/)

• Unix/Mac/Linux: Bash,
• Windows 10: PowerShell,
• Windows 8: Bash for Windows (Docker Toolbox).

Installation using Composer

To install the Linux for Composer package, you can simply run the following commands:

$ composer require --dev linuxforphp/linuxforcomposer
$ php vendor/bin/linuxforcomposer.phar

Note

On Windows, please use the PHAR file in the vendor/linuxforphp/linuxforcomposer/bin folder.

You can install Linux for Composer for your entire system by copying the binary in a folder that is in your PATH:

$ cp vendor/linuxforphp/linuxforcomposer/bin/linuxforcomposer.phar /usr/local/bin/linuxforcomposer

You would then be able to invoke the binary directly from within the working directories of your PHP projects:

$ cd /my/favorite/php/project
$ linuxforcomposer docker:run start

Once installed, you will now be able to configure the linuxforcomposer.json file according to the specific needs of your project.