Composer is a dependency manager for PHP that allows you to manage packages and libraries in your projects.

How to Use Composer:

  1. Access your account via SSH (see SSH article).
  2. Navigate to your project directory:
    cd ~/public_html/yourproject
  3. Run:
    composer install or composer update

Common Uses:

  • Install Laravel: composer create-project laravel/laravel
  • Update vendor libraries: composer update

Composer is pre-installed on Aviumshost shared and VPS hosting environments.