Composer Articles and Tutorials


Build Your Own Software Packages
April 27, 2023

Build Your Own Software Packages

I recently refactored parts of a web application for an upcoming Twilio tutorial into three open source packages. Here’s what motivated the decision to do so, and why I think you should create them too.

How To Use Forked Repositories In Composer
April 20, 2016

How To Use Forked Repositories In Composer

How well do you really know Composer? Do you just know composer install, update, and require, and some of the composer.json configuration? Or do you really know it? Here, in the third part of the Composer series, we’ll see how to use forked repositories, instead of the canonical sources.

How To Automate Projects Using Composer Scripts
April 6, 2016

How To Automate Projects Using Composer Scripts

How well do you really know Composer? Do you just know composer install, update, and require, and some of the composer.json configuration? Or do you really know it? Here, in the second part of the Composer series, we’ll look at the scripts section of composer.json.

The Composer Command-Line Essentials
April 29, 2016

The Composer Command-Line Essentials

How well do you really know Composer? Do you just know composer install, update, and require, and some of the composer.json configuration? Or do you really know it? In this series, you’re going to take your skills to the next level; starting with the command-line.

April 27, 2015

Render Tables the Easy Way in Zend Framework 2

HTML Tables, once used heavily for almost everything, have largely been relegated in the modern CSS/HTML5 world. Now they are only used for what they were originally designed for — rendering tabular data. So they’re still essential! But there’s a lot to them, if you want to use them properly. So there needs to be a way of rendering them easily and quickly. Today’s tutorial introduces a module which helps you do just that.