Yii 2.0 Public Preview - Composer Installer
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Thank you for choosing Yii - a high-performance component-based PHP framework.

If you are looking for a production-ready PHP framework, please use
[Yii v1.1](https://github.com/yiisoft/yii).

Yii 2.0 is still under heavy development. We may make significant changes
without prior notices. **Yii 2.0 is not ready for production use yet.**

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This is the yii2 composer installer.

Installation
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This extension offers you enhanced composer handling for your yii2-project. It will therefor require you to use composer.

`
php composer.phar require yiisoft/yii2-composer *
`

*Note: You might have to run `php composer.phar selfupdate` before using this extension.*


Usage & Documentation
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This extensions allows you to hook to certain composer events and prepare your yii2-app for usage.

After the package is installed, the composer.json file has to be modified to enable this extension.

To see it in action take a look at the example apps in the repository:

[Basic](https://github.com/suralc/yii2/blob/master/apps/basic/composer.json#L27)
[Advanced](https://github.com/suralc/yii2/blob/extensions-readme/apps/advanced/composer.json)

However it might be useful to read through the official composer [documentation](http://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/scripts.md) to understand what this extension can to for you and what it can't. 

You can also use this as an template to create your own composer additions to ease development and deployment of your app.




