When using Composer in a production environment, you need to pay attention to safety, stability and performance. 1. Use composerinstall-no-dev to reduce unnecessary development dependencies and reduce online environment risks; 2. Always submit and rely on composer.lock files to ensure version consistency, and avoid using updates during deployment; 3. Optional configuration platform-check=false ignores platform differences warnings, which is suitable for building packaging scenarios; 4. Enable APCU to accelerate automatic loading to improve performance, especially suitable for high concurrency services, while paying attention to namespace uniqueness to avoid cache conflicts.

Installing Composer takes only a few steps and is suitable for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Windows users should download Composer-Setup.exe and run it to ensure that PHP is installed or XAMPP is used; macOS users need to execute download, verification, and global installation commands through the terminal; Linux users operate similarly to macOS, and then use the corresponding package manager to install PHP and download and move the Composer file to the global directory.

To check whether Composer is installed correctly, first run the composer--version command to view the version information. If the version number is displayed, it means that it is installed. Secondly, use the composerdiagnose command to detect configuration problems and ensure that the environment variables and permissions are normal. Finally, try to verify the functional integrity through the composerrequiremonolog/monolog installation package. If the vendor directory is successfully created and the dependency is downloaded, it means that Composer is fully available. If the above steps fail, you may need to check whether PHP has been installed globally or adjusted system path settings.

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To install the Composer plug-in, please first confirm that Composer is installed and the composer.json file exists, and then follow the following steps: 1. Make sure that Composer has been installed and created composer.json; 2. Search and copy the required plug-in name on Packagist; 3. Use the composerrequirequire command to install the plug-in, such as composerrequiredealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer; 4. Verify whether the plug-in is effective and check compatibility and configuration. Follow these steps to correctly install the Composer plug-in.

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You can make Composer use a specific PHP version by specifying PHP binary files, using version management tools, or configuring composer.json. 1. In Unix-like systems, you can set an alias or export the COMPOSER_PHP environment variable to directly specify the PHP binary file; 2. Use tools such as phpenv or brew to switch the PHP version to achieve global or project-level version control; 3. Configure the platform.php field in composer.json to declare the PHP version required for the project to ensure that the dependency check is correct; 4. Windows users can call the specified PHP version by modifying the PATH environment variable or creating a batch script to call the specified PHP version.

To add a custom repository to the Composer configuration, edit the composer.json file in the project and specify the repository information under the "repositories" key. The specific steps are as follows: 1. Determine the repository type, such as VCS (Git, SVN, etc.), Composer, PEAR or Package; 2. Add the "repositories" block in composer.json and fill in the repository type and URL. For example, when using a VCS-type Git repository, the format is {"type":"vcs","url":"https