After the project template is installed it's a good idea to adjust default composer.json
that can be found in the root
directory:
{
"name": "yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced",
"description": "Yii 2 Advanced Project Template",
"keywords": ["yii2", "framework", "advanced", "project template"],
"homepage": "http://www.yiiframework.com/",
"type": "project",
"license": "BSD-3-Clause",
"support": {
"issues": "https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/issues?state=open",
"forum": "http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/",
"wiki": "http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/",
"irc": "irc://irc.freenode.net/yii",
"source": "https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2"
},
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"require": {
"php": ">=5.4.0",
"yiisoft/yii2": "*",
"yiisoft/yii2-bootstrap": "*",
"yiisoft/yii2-swiftmailer": "*"
},
"require-dev": {
"yiisoft/yii2-codeception": "*",
"yiisoft/yii2-debug": "*",
"yiisoft/yii2-gii": "*",
"yiisoft/yii2-faker": "*"
},
"config": {
"process-timeout": 1800
},
"extra": {
"asset-installer-paths": {
"npm-asset-library": "vendor/npm",
"bower-asset-library": "vendor/bower"
}
}
}
First we're updating basic information. Change name
, description
, keywords
, homepage
and support
to match
your project.
Now the interesting part. You can add more packages your application needs to the require
section.
All these packages are coming from packagist.org so feel free to browse the website for useful code.
After your composer.json
is changed you can run composer update --prefer-dist
, wait till packages are downloaded and
installed and then just use them. Autoloading of classes will be handled automatically.