dynamicCoder: July 2020

In this guide, i'm installing Composer on a machine running Mac OSX with MAMP.

Open a terminal and navigate to your user directory, ie cd /User/<USER_NAME>/
Run this command shown below to download Composer. This will create a Phar (PHP Archive) file calledcomposer.phar:
```
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
```
Now we move composer.phar fileto a directory
```
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/
```
We want to run Composer with having to be root al the time, so we need to change the permissions:
```
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
```
Next, we need to let Bash know where to execute Composer:
```
nano ~/.bash_profile
```
Add this line below to bash_profile and save
```
alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer.phar"
```
and then run this command:
```
source ~/.bash_profile
```
Finally, run:
```
composer -v
```

dynamicCoder