how composer saved php

HOW COMPOSER SAVED PHP

OBLIGATORY “ABOUT ME” SLIDE

➤ Worked as a web developer since 2006 ➤ Have used several in-house and OS

frameworks ➤ Involved with phpBelfast ➤ Currently work for The Tomorrow Lab ➤ @ryankilf

DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT

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DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT IN

PHP IN 2012A confused mixture

DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT

➤ PEAR

➤ phpclasses.org

DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT

➤ PEAR

➤ phpclasses.org

DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT

➤ PEAR

➤ phpclasses.org

➤ Framework Specific Dependency Management

➤ CodeIgniter - Sparks

➤ FuelPHP - Cells

➤ Laravel - Bundles

➤ Cake - The Bakery

➤ ZF2 - Modules

INTEROPERABILITY +

STANDARDS SUUUUURRRREEE

CODING STANDARDS

$variablenamelikeso

$variableNameLikeSo

$variable_name_like_so

SUMMARY - SILOS

➤ Different Coding Standards

➤ Different dependency tools

➤ How to write something for both, say, Laravel & FuelPHP?

➤ Where do you put it?

➤ Are you creating two entirely separate repos?

“Originally used for tracking visits to his online resume, he [Rasmus Lerdorf] named the suite of scripts "Personal Home Page Tools," more frequently referenced as "PHP Tools."

- php.net history page

“The PHP community needs to get together behind a new solution and the framework developers need to lead the charge.

- Phil Sturgeon, 2012

ENTER

PROBLEMS COMPOSER SOLVES

➤ Installation per site

➤ Not curated

➤ But packagist.org helps ensure quality

➤ Tests part of composer.json

➤ PSR-0 Compliant Autoloading solution

➤ Now PSR-4

➤ Don’t have to commit every file in some library

TYPICAL COMPOSER FILE (SECTION THEREOF)

"require": {

"php": ">=7.0.1",

"doctrine/dbal": "^2.5",

"fzaninotto/faker": "^1.6",

"jeroennoten/laravel-adminlte": "^1.17",

"laravel/framework": "5.3.*"

},

ADDING A NEW PACKAGE TO MY PROJECT

ADDING A NEW LIBRARY

COMPOSER.JSON

COMPOSER.LOCK

ENTER

PROBLEMS SYMFONY COMPONENTS SOLVE

➤ Great Libraries

➤ Used in lots of frameworks

➤ interoperability

➤ N.B. Symfony not a monolith, but a bunch of bits

➤ But I can take those bits and make what I want

PROJECTS USING SYMFONY COMPONENTShttp://symfony.com/projects

Drupal phpBB Laravel Symfony Full Stack eZ Publish Community Joomla! Composer Magento Piwik Silex

Assetic Goutte Sami Sismo PHPUnit OroCRM OroPlatform Doctrine Behat Sylius

Sonata Project Zikula Symfony CMF Akeneo PIM Shopware Propel Mautic Codeception

PROJECTS USING SYMFONY COMPONENTShttp://symfony.com/projects

TYPO3 Thelia Kunstmaan Bundles Sculpin Flow phpspec phpDocumentor Guzzle Bolt Pagekit Vespolina Easybook Fork CMS phpMyFAQ PPI Framework

Proem Framework Sulu init CMS Carew RedKite CMS Ladybug Phinx Elcodi Spress phpRedExpert Roadiz Mothership BackBee concrete5 Sonata e-commerce

Drupal Console Grav WellCommerce Contao Aimeos e-commerce components PHP Depend bowerphp freepost Morfeu Pimcore CSBill eccube

ENTER

PROBLEMS PHP-FIG SOLVES

➤ Standards

➤ for everyone

➤ A whole PHP vision

➤ a PHP-first community

➤ Not just a community for every framework

➤ They don’t write code

➤ PSR-0 - most important

NOW?What’s the current state of PHP?

COMPOSER INFLUENCE

COMPOSER INFLUENCE

johnpbloch/wordpress // roots.io // wpackagist.org

ENTER

THE PHP LEAGUE

➤ Packages for everyone

➤ Which are PHP-FIG compliant

➤ PHP: The right way

➤ “Everyone first”

➤ Adapters for specific frameworks

➤ Flysystem, wow!

PHPBELFAST FRAMEWORK

➤ Now viable to make entire applications out of “Stuff” on packagist

➤ Not convinced that it’s the right thing to do

➤ But, still great that it’s viable

➤ @phpbelfast

ENTER YOU?

LESSONS FOR OPEN SOURCE

➤ Write code for the widest possible number of users

➤ Documentation matters

➤ Make the easiest solution the best solution

➤ Lots of small packages > few big ones

➤ community matters

FURTHER READING

➤ benramsey.com/blog/2013/11/the-fall-of-pear-and-the-rise-of-composer

➤ philsturgeon.uk/php/2012/03/06/packages-the-way-forward-for-php

➤ symfony.com/projects

➤ roots.io

GET IN TOUCH

➤ @ryankilf // @thetomorrowlab

➤ ryan@thetomorrowlab.com