How to install composer in windows with php.exe

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install composer on windows 7.

So what is Composer? 
Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the dependent libraries your project needs and it will install them in your project for you.

You can download the windows installer at https://getcomposer.org/download/

As you notice when installing, It will ask you where your php.exe is located. as a default, Windows7 doesn't have php included. We can solve this by using our uniservers preinstalled php.

What is Uniserver?
Uniserver or Uniform Server is a lightweight server solution for running a web server under the WindowsOS. It is less than 10MiB, it includes the latest versions of Apache2, Perl5, PHP5, MySQL5, phpMyAdmin and more.

You can download UniserverZ at http://www.uniformserver.com/ZeroXI_documentation/

 Install unizerver on your desired location.

After the installation of uniserver, we now have our php.exe, it can be found on

C:\UniServerZ\core\php54\php.exe 

We can now proceed on installing composer on windows by providing the link of our php.exe that can be found on our uniserver.


To verify if composer is really installed, We can open our cmd terminal and type "composer"