Unless you’ve been living under a rock, today’s PHP isn’t your grandmother’s PHP; it’s an entirely different, much more elegant and mature language with countless improvements and additions.
One of the key additions is Composer, the de facto standard for managing PHP project dependencies which, by default, gives you access to hundreds of ready-made libraries, via Packagist.org.
I’m not going to go over how to use Composer, as it’s been covered so well here on SitePoint already; especially by this article, by Alexander Cogneau.
Instead, I’m approaching it from a different angle, taking you through the excellent Composer cheat sheet, which I came across recently.
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