You can immediately see if something went wrong with the executed command. The command status indicator is located in the lower left-hand corner. Select dependency type development (it will add the package to composer.json under require-dev) and version default, which will install the latest release. For example, you can install phpunit as shown in the picture bellow. Once packages information is loaded, you can search for the package you are interested in and install it.

You can see the progress in the composer log in Output pane. If your connection is very slow you can close the dialog and continue your work, the process will continue on the background. Right click on the References node of your PHP project in the Solution Explorer, and select Install New Composer Packages.īefore opening the dialog packages, information has to be loaded from, which is usually very fast. PHP Tools for Visual Studio enables browsing in the package repository directly within IDE.

Composer in MSBuild - for hooking composer into msbuild processīrowsing/Installing new composer packages in the GUI.

Composer log in Output pane - for viewing the output of composer commands in your Visual Studio session.

Composer in the Command Prompt - for running composer the old-fashioned way (in cmd.exe).

Solution Explorer - for viewing/managing installed packages.

Composer install package GUI - for browsing/installing packages from the repository.

There are several ways you can work with Composer in PHP Tools for Visual Studio: This text will assume you are familiar with it. To get yourself familiar with the basic Composer functionality please check to learn more. This allows you to install and manage packages to use them in your PHP project.

PHP Tools for Visual Studio has an extensive package ecosystem support through integration with Composer.

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