Creating Yii applications with composer ======================================= When creating web-application projects, you can add a great variety of different extensions, modueles, plugins or scripts to your code-base. But maintaining a stable combination and updating certain packages can become a hard task.

Luckily there are tools to handle the dependency management for you, like [composer](http://getcomposer.org) - which will be the package manager for Yii 2 - but this tutorial shows the integration of composer with Yii 1.1.

## Prepare Application