Install Symfony2 and propel using composer

1A) Download composer, which will download the composer.phar file which can be kept anywhere:

cd /path/to/composer/install/dir
curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

1B) Install symfony:

cd /path/to/composer/install/dir
php composer.phar create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition /path/to/webroot/Symfony 2.1.x-dev

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2) To optionally install propel:

2A) Configure composer.json file

  cd /path/to/webroot/Symfony

  Open /path/to/webroot/Symfony/composer.json in a text editor
  Add in the following line:


 "require": {
        ... ,
        "propel/propel-bundle": "1.1.*"
    },

2B) Download and install propel:

cd /path/to/webroot/Symfony
php /path/to/composer/install/dir/composer.phar update

After this step, you'll need to manually register the bundle in the AppKernel.php file.  See the following page for how to do that: http://propelorm.org/cookbook/symfony2/working-with-symfony2.html#configuration (Search for "The second step is to register this bundle in the AppKernel class:") (Note that I had to add the first configuration on that page, even though I was using Composer")

After that, you'll need to "configure the bundle": http://propelorm.org/cookbook/symfony2/working-with-symfony2.html#configuration Note: I had to comment out or delete the doctrine: block, otherwise symfony would get confused and thought I was using doctrine.