9. Composer
Overview
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to describe the benefits of using a dependency manager in your application; identify high-quality, open source packages to solve common problems; add third-party libraries to your project; set up autoloading in your project so that you don't have to use include statements; and implement the Monolog logging package.
Introduction
In the previous chapter, we covered how to handle error conditions by using PHP's built-in Exception class and how to use the try…catch block to control the flow of your application.
Most modern-day applications are built on top of an amalgamation of other open source libraries. Many problems that are frequently encountered across all applications ...
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