Laravel – How to remove a package from Laravel using PHP Composer

If you really wanted to, you could do all the work that Composer does manually, but you definitely should not. Installing Composer is easy, it's just a matter of getting the composer.phar file and running commands on it.

You do not need to run Composer on your server as well as locally, once you run composer install or composer update your project will have all its dependencies available and you can just upload it straight to your server.

This is not a Laravel package, so you don't have Service Provider nor Alias to setup, but this is a PHP package and since you use Composer to install it, it is already autoloaded, so you can just:

Add the package to your composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "ghunti/highcharts-php": "~2.0"
    }
}

Run

composer dumpautoload

And instantiate it:

$chart = new Ghunti\HighchartsPHP\Highchart();

Or use it in the top of your php:

use Ghunti\HighchartsPHP\Highchart;

And you should be able to:

$chart = new Highchart(Highchart::HIGHSTOCK);

Anywhere in your project and it should work.

You can create an alias in app/config/app.php for it if you prefer to use it this way:

'Highchart' => 'Ghunti\HighchartsPHP\Highchart'

But you will still have to instantiate it

$chart = new Highchart();

You won't able to use it as in Laravel

Highchart::doWhatever();

Unless you create a ServiceProvider yourself, of course.