| Composer | Pickle | |
|---|---|---|
| 226 | 3 | |
| 29,036 | 1,654 | |
| 0.2% | 0.3% | |
| 9.5 | 0.0 | |
| 5 days ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Composer
Posts with mentions or reviews of Composer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-19.
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How to Set Up Your First Laravel Project Using Composer — Quick and Easy!
🔽 To install Composer: Visit the official website 👉 https://getcomposer.org Download the installer for your OS and follow the instructions.
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Arguments a customer can understand not to use WordPress
There is also no requirement to follow the PHP-FIG standards. The best thing that is build because of those standards is Composer. The most plugins I downloaded while writing use composer. The problem is that the plugins ship with their own vendor directory. While the standard is to have one vendor directory for the whole project. This results in different packages with the same or different version of it in the plugins. Other CMS's like Craft CMS and Drupal have the same problem where third parties provide plugins, but they are able to use Composer as it should be used.
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Insights from the PHP Foundation Executive Director
“Extensions are now very close to being like packages; they basically look like Composer packages. It’s still open to discussion whether PIE will be part of Composer someday. It’s not decided yet, but I hope it will be,” Roman added.
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PHP Core Security Audit Results
Dependencies are managed by Composer (like npm, cargo, etc) for more than 10 years now.
https://getcomposer.org
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লারাভেল ব্যবহার করে REST API তৈরি: নতুনদের জন্য
Composer (লারাভেল ইনস্টল করার জন্য)
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How to Build a CRUD API with Laravel for Beginners
Composer
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Configurando Ambiente em PHP no Windows
https://getcomposer.org/
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WordPress and Components
Composer and Packagist have become key tools for establishing the foundations of PHP-based applications. Packagist is essentially a directory containing PHP code out of which Composer, a PHP-dependency manager, retrieves packages. Their ease of use and exceptional features simplify the process of importing and managing own and third-party components into our PHP projects.
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2025 Best PHP Micro Frameworks: Slim, Flight, Fat-Free, Lumen, and More!
Simplicity: Getting started is a breeze—install via Composer, define some routes, and you’re off. Scaling up? Add middleware or libs like Twig or Eloquent as needed.
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Laravel 12 A Beginner-Friendly Guide
Laravel requires Composer, a dependency manager for PHP. You can download and install Composer from getcomposer.org.
Pickle
Posts with mentions or reviews of Pickle.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-15.
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New "PECL" - Externals
Not that I'm aware of. The closest project I am aware of is/was Pickle, was designed to replace just the commandline extension installer.
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Is PEAR still in use?
The only alternative for PECL is Pickle, but that thing was dormant for years. It looks like there has been some new development recently so let's hope it can replace PECL sometime in the future.
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After working with node, THAT is what I have been missing out on?
There's hope that composer will eventually manage PHP extension installation (pickle) but that's been stagnant.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Composer and Pickle you can also consider the following projects:
Climb
Melody - One-file composer scripts
Composer Installers - A Multi-Framework Composer Library Installer
php-dependency-analysis - Library for check dependency between modules inside projects