The Way of Composer

Composer has arrived as the primary dependency manager for PHP, and it's changing the landscape dramatically. It's very much like a package manager, but with some advantageous differences. If you're interested in leveraging one of the huge number of third party packages available for your PHP app in a safe and sane way, or if you still automatically think of PEAR when you think of packages for PHP, you should learn about Composer. If you're already using Composer, come and contribute your experiences too!