community.general.composer – Dependency Manager for PHP

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples

Synopsis

• Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the dependent libraries your project needs and it will install them in your project for you.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• php
• composer installed in bin path (recommended /usr/local/bin) or specified in composer_executable

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: Download and installs all libs and dependencies outlined in the /path/to/project/composer.lock
  community.general.composer:
    command: install
    working_dir: /path/to/project

- name: Install a new package
  community.general.composer:
    command: require
    arguments: my/package
    working_dir: /path/to/project

- name: Clone and install a project with all dependencies
  community.general.composer:
    command: create-project
    arguments: package/package /path/to/project ~1.0
    working_dir: /path/to/project
    prefer_dist: yes

- name: Install a package globally
  community.general.composer:
    command: require
    global_command: yes
    arguments: my/package

Authors

• Dimitrios Tydeas Mengidis (@dmtrs)
• René Moser (@resmo)