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I try to learn composer, now I want to include (zurb) foundation, so I added "require": {"zurb/foundation": "v5.2.2"} to the composer.json file. After running composer.phar update, I can see that there are some files added to the folder /vendor/zurb/foundation.

But I have no clue how to continue, could anybody please advise how I can start building my web-app now? How do I get it to use the css and js files that are needed for foundation?

I already included the file vendor/autoload.php to my index.php, but that doesn't seem to be enough.

I already built multiple web-sites and apps using foundation, but always "manual", then I just include the right css and js files to the header and footer of the page. Now I just don't know where to start.

thanks for your help.

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    Composer is for PHP packages. Front-end packages should be included using Bower (the package manager for font-end packages). You can also take a look at the component installer if you don't want to use bower Commented Apr 17, 2014 at 21:58
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    Thanks for your comment, but why is it then available via composer when that doesn't do anything? or am I seeing it wrong? Commented Apr 18, 2014 at 22:41
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    because some people thought Composer was the answer to everything... :) Commented Apr 19, 2014 at 10:07

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Check this question first to get the basics: NPM/Bower/Composer - differences?.

Then, if you decide to go with Composer for PHP and Bower for front-end libraries, follow this:

  1. Install Bower using sh $ npm install -g bower (you'll need Node.js and npm first)

  2. Configure Bower for you front-end packages (visit Bower docs for more information)

    { "name": "MyProject", "dependencies": { "foundation": "*" } }

  3. Hook Bower to Composer adding this to your composer.json

    "scripts": { "post-install-cmd": [ "bower install" ], "post-update-cmd": [ "bower install" ], }

Now every time you hit composer update (or install), bower components get updated as well!

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