Getting Started / Install with Composer

Note: You are currently reading the documentation for Bolt 2.2. Looking for the documentation for Bolt 5.2 instead?

If you've read through the previous installation options the principle has been that Bolt is the primary application. With this latest version of Bolt we've ensured that you can also install Bolt as a dependency of any other Composer based project.

Single command install¶

If you are starting a new project from scratch then we've made this very simple. Just run the following from a command line:

composer create-project bolt/composer-install <MYPROJECT> --prefer-dist

Change <MYPROJECT> to the name of your project before running the installer.

The install process will ask you some questions about your required install strategy, you can install Bolt inside a single directory, or you can install the public assets inside a public directory and keep the application code outside the web root.

Here's what you should see...

Adding to an existing Composer project¶

If you already have a Composer project setup then run this command inside the root directory:

composer require bolt/bolt ^2.2

If you use this method you will need to bootstrap Bolt yourself, depending on when you want to dispatch requests to Bolt. For some ideas of how to setup a bootstrap file see the advanced installation page.