Laravel 4 leverages Composer, so this bundle is obsolete.

Not sure what's going on here? Here are the Laravel docs, and here are the Composer docs.

I can't take much credit at all for what's going on here. Praise and adoration go to the Laravel and Composer people.

1. Install the bundle

    php artisan bundle:install composeur
   

2. Add composeur to bundles.php

    return array(
        'composeur' => array(
        	'auto' => true,
        ),
    );
   

3. Create application/config/composeur.php

    return array(
    	'auto_update' => true, /* <== You'll need that */
    	'require' => array(
    		/* Composer require key styled as an associative array */
    		/* http://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#the-require-key */
    	),
    );
   

4. Get out there and use your Composer packages

With this application/config/composeur.php

return array(
    'auto_update' => true,
    'require' => array(
        'monolog/monolog' => '1.0.*',
    ),
);

Monolog will be available anywhere in your Laravel application, so you could say

Route::get('/', function()
{
    $log = new Monolog\Logger('test');
    $log->pushHandler(new Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler(path('storage') . 'logs/mono.log', Monolog\Logger::WARNING));
    $log->addWarning('Hey, look! A visitor!');

    return View::make('home.index');
});

1. Install the bundle

    php artisan bundle:install composeur
   

2. Add composeur to bundles.php

    return array(
        'composeur' => array(
        	'auto' => true,
        ),
    );
   

3. Set up composeur (installs Composer in the {base} dir)

    php artisan composeur::setup
   

4. Create application/config/composeur.php (or don't, see below)

    return array(
    	'auto_update' => false, /* <== This can be omitted */
    	'require' => array(
    		/* Composer require key styled as an associative array */
    		/* http://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#the-require-key */
    	),
    );
   

5. Now use the composeur bundle's Cli task

    php artisan composeur::cli:install
   

   or

    php artisan composeur::cli:update
   

   etc...

It's not necessary to use the composeur bundle's Cli task to run Composer. Running php artisan composeur::setup installs composer.phar in the {base} directory, so from there you can simply run php composer.phar [command].

If you choose, you need not create application/config/composeur.php. As mentioned above, after the composeur bundle is setup, you can use it from the {base} directory, so just create your own composer.json file there and get going. Warning: if you create your own composer.json and later create application/config/composeur.php, your composer.json might get eaten.

This bundle adds Composer's autoloader to PHP's collection of autoloaders. It's added after Laravel's, so Laravel should have the first shot at resolving classes and namespaces. I suppose this means there is some chance of namespaces being resolved by Laravel when you want them to be resolved by Composer, but I guess you can figure that out.

MIT license - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php