Composer: Revolutionized PHP's Dependency Manager
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Composer: PHP's Dependency Manager
Offer details about Composer, an application-level dependency manager specifically designed for the PHP programming language. Excerpt from the official Composer site, confirms its status as a dependency manager for PHP, noting its current version as 2.9.1 and that it is released under the MIT license. The Wikipedia excerpt elaborates on Composer's nature, explaining it provides a standard format for managing PHP software dependencies and required libraries, was initially released in 2012 by Nils Adermann and Jordi Boggiano, and runs from the command line. Furthermore, the second source lists several popular frameworks and content management systems, such as Laravel and Drupal, that are supported by Composer.