If you have to deal with several Magento projects, you probably know how it is painful to manage dependencies and getting and installing extensions for your projects. Composer is a solution largely used in PHP world but not very known in the Magento community. This tool can helps you to improve your productivity and make your life easier if it’s used correctly… This is what we will see together. Main message: The Magento composer project is the perfect example which shows that the community can bring great enhancement to Magento projects.

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ABOUT SYLVAIN RAYÉ
• Founder / Senior & Certified Magento Developer by Diglin
GmbH
• CTO by rissip GmbH
• Board member of Firegento Association (German Magento
community)
• Organizer Hackathons / Meet Magento Switzerland
(24.10.2014)

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COMPOSER
http://getcomposer.org
http://packagist.org

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• Manage dependencies
• Code reuse
• Code Sharing
• Easy to clean uninstall
• Easy upgrade
• Works with GIT/SVN orTAR or filesystem
• Multiplatform (Windows, *nix, OSX)
X
COMPOSER ?

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COMPOSER
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

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COMPOSER.JSON

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• ..
5
COMPOSER.JSON
Project / Dependency levels

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COMPOSER PHAR
init
search
require
validate
install
update
show
help
…

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COMPOSER INSTALL / UPDATE
├── app
├── src
├── web
├── …
├── composer.json
├── composer.lock
└── vendor
├── composer
├── autoload.php
├── bin
├── mongo
├── doctrine
├── …

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MAGENTO MODULES
├── app
│ ├── code
│ │ ├── community
│ │ │ ├── NAMESPACE
│ │ │ │ ├── MODULENAME
│ │ │ │ │ ├── Helper
│ │ │ │ │ ├── Model
│ │ │ │ │ └── …
│ ├── design
│ │ ├── frontend
│ │ │ └── base
│ │ │ ├── default
│ │ │ │ ├── layout
│ │ │ │ │ ├── modulename.xml
│ │ │ │ └── template
│ │ │ │ ├── modulename
│ ├── etc
│ │ └── modules
│ │ ├── Namespace_Modulename.xml
│ └── locale
├── js
├── skin
└── …
Magento 1

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MAGENTO MODULES
├── app
│ ├── code
│ │ ├── NAMESPACE
│ │ │ ├── MODULENAME
│ │ │ │ ├── Block
│ │ │ │ ├── Controller
│ │ │ │ ├── Helper
│ │ │ │ ├── Model
│ │ │ │ ├── etc
│ │ │ │ ├── i18n
│ │ │ │ ├── views
│ │ │ │ └── …
├── lib
├── pub
└── …
Magento 2
├── app
│ ├── code
│ │ ├── community
│ │ │ ├── NAMESPACE
│ │ │ │ ├── MODULENAME
│ │ │ │ │ ├── Helper
│ │ │ │ │ ├── Model
│ │ │ │ │ └── …
│ ├── design
│ │ ├── frontend
│ │ │ └── base
│ │ │ ├── default
│ │ │ │ ├── layout
│ │ │ │ │ ├── modulename.xml
│ │ │ │ └── template
│ │ │ │ ├── modulename
│ ├── etc
│ │ └── modules
│ │ ├── Namespace_Modulename.xml
│ └── locale
├── js
├── skin
└── …
Magento 1

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http://packages.firegento.com
https://github.com/magento-hackathon/magento-
composer-installer
MAGENTO COMPOSER

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PACKAGES.FIREGENTO.COM

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COMPOSER.JSON
Project level
{
"require": {
"magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer": "*",
…
},
"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "https://github.com/magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer"
},
…
],
"extra": {
"magento-root-dir": "./src",
"magento-deploystrategy": "copy",
"magento-force" : "override",
…
}
}

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COMPOSER.JSON
Project level
{
"require": {
"magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer": "*",
"connect20/mage_all_latest": "1.8.1.0",
"diglin/diglin_username": "2.*"
},
"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "https://github.com/magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer"
},
{
"type": "composer",
"url": "http://packages.firegento.com"
}
],
"extra": {
"magento-root-dir": "./src",
"magento-deploystrategy": "copy",
"magento-force" : "override"
}
}

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MAGENTO COMPOSER OPTIONS
Under extra option in composer.json
‘magento-root-dir’: ‘../src’
‘modman-root-dir’: ‘.modman’
‘magento-force’: true
‘path-mapping-translations’: {…}
‘magento-map-overwrite’: {…}
‘auto-append-gitignore’: true
‘magento-deploy-ignore’: {…}
‘magento-deploy-sort-priority’: {…}
‘magento-deploystrategy’: ‘copy’
‘magento-deploystrategy-overwrite’: {…} (beta)

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DEPLOY STRATEGY
NONE
COPY
SYMLINK
LINK (hardlink)

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PUBLISH
YOUR EXTENSION

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YOUR OWN PACKAGE REPOSITORY
SATIS
PACKAGIST

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PUBLISH YOUR EXTENSION

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PUBLISH YOUR EXTENSION

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PUBLISH YOUR EXTENSION
Composer.json on dependency level

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PUBLISH YOUR EXTENSION
Composer.json on dependency level
New type

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PUBLISH YOUR EXTENSION
Composer.json on dependency level
New type
Dependencies

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PUBLISH YOUR EXTENSION
MAP in composer.json
PACKAGE.XML
MODMAN FILE
Mapping

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PUBLISH YOUR EXTENSION
Modman file

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PUBLISH YOUR EXTENSION
• Execute "git tag -a 1.0.0" & "git push --tags"
• Fork the https://github.com/magento-hackathon/composer-
repository
• Edit satis.json
!
!
• Execute "composer validate"
• Commit & Pull request to the original repository

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PUBLISH YOUR EXTENSION
• Execute "git tag -a 1.0.0" & "git push --tags"
• Fork the https://github.com/magento-hackathon/composer-
repository
• Edit satis.json
!
!
• Execute "composer validate"
• Commit & Pull request to the original repository

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PEAR IS DEAD!
HOORAY TO COMPOSER

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LINKS
• https://github.com/composer/
• http://packagist.org
• https://github.com/magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer
• https://github.com/magento-hackathon/composer-command-integrator/
• http://packages.firegento.com
• https://github.com/magento-hackathon/composer-repository
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cp21bnv8vnahprcbm4c5k4laceg - nice talk about composer
strategies
• http://magebase.com/magento-tutorials/composer-with-magento/ - tutorial fromVinai