Is there any way to install Composer globally on Windows?

Question

I\'ve read the global installation documentation for Composer, but it\'s for *nix systems only:

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Answer 1

An alternative variant (see Lusitanian answer) is to register .phar files as executable on your system, exemplary phar.reg file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.phar]
@="phar_auto_file"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\phar_auto_file\shell\open\command]
@="\"c:\\PROGRA~1\\php\\php.exe\" \"%1\" %*"

Just replace the path to php.exe to your PHP executable. You can then also extend the %PATHEXT% commandline variable with .PHAR which will allow you to type composer instead of composer.phar as long as composer.phar is inside the %Path%.