Download and Install Codeigniter 4 via Composer, Github, and Manually

To download and install codeigniter 4; In this article, we would love to share with you how to install & download Codeigniter 4 project using the composer, GitHub, and manually and start the downloaded project.

Table of Contents

• Download and Install Composer
• Check Composer
• Download and Install Codeigniter 4 via Composer, Github, Manually
• Run CodeIgniter Application

1. Download and Install Composer

Go to the browser and hit the following URL in your browser https://getcomposer.org/download/. And double click on the downloaded composer exe file to setup the installation.

2. Check Composer

To check composer version, Simply open the command prompt or terminal and type composer -v command into it:

composer -v

3. Download and Install Codeigniter 4 via Composer, Github, Manually

Here are 3 options to download and install Codeigniter 4.

Option 1: Install or download Codeigniter 4 Manullay

Go to Codeigniter’s official website and download and extract Codeigniter’s new setup and your local webserver environment.

Option 2: Install or download Codeigniter 4 via Composer

In this step, you need to open your command prompt and run the following command for creating a Codeigniter project name “first-CodeIgniter-4”.

composer create-project codeigniter4/appstarter  first-CodeIgniter-4  -s rc 

Now, We will update dependency using below command. Whenever there is a new release, then from the command line in your project root:

composer update

Option 3: Install or download Codeigniter 4 via Github

In the third step, you can download or install the codeigniter 4 using git.

git remote add upstream https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4.git 

4. Run CodeIgniter Application

Next, we will run the download project, let’s open the terminal so go to

cd C:\Xampp\htdocs\first-CodeIgniter-4 

Run the following command

php spark serve 

OR

php spark serve --port=8081 

OR

php -S localhost:3000

After run the above command, go to browser and hit url http://localhost:8000/ or http://localhost:8081/ or http://localhost:3000/

Conclusion

In this Codeigniter 4 tutorial – we have successfully installed or download the CodeIgniter project using the composer, git and manual.