Installing Composer

`Composer`_ is the package manager used by modern PHP applications and the

recommended way to install Symfony2.

`Composer`_ is the package manager used by modern PHP applications. Use Composer

to manage dependencies in your Symfony applications and to install Symfony Components

in your PHP projects.

It's recommended to install Composer globally in your system as explained in the

following sections.

Install Composer on Linux and Mac OS X

Learn more

You can readmore aboutComposer in `its documentation`_.

Read the `Composer documentation`_ to learnmore aboutits usage and features.

.. _`Composer`:https://getcomposer.org/

.. _`getcomposer.org/download`:https://getcomposer.org/download

.. _`its documentation`:https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md

.. _`Composer documentation`:https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md