TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Composer vs. OpenText ChangeMan ZMF

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Composer

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AComposer is a free and open source dependency manager for PHP. It allows the user to declare the libraries a project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them. it manages packages on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory (e.g. vendor) inside a project and by default, it does not install anything globally. Thus, it is a dependency manager.N/A

    OpenText ChangeMan ZMF

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AOpenText™ ChangeMan ZMF manages every code change and asset from development to delivery. It is designed to reduce maintenance costs and regression errors through an automated lifecycle with strict accountability and quality assurance at every stage.N/A
    Pricing
    ComposerOpenText ChangeMan ZMF
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ComposerOpenText ChangeMan ZMF
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
    More Pricing Information
    User Ratings
    ComposerOpenText ChangeMan ZMF
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ComposerOpenText ChangeMan ZMF
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    I do highly recommend it whenever you have some PHP projects, especially if you need to have reusable modules that you want to share across teams. With a good branching an tagging strategy, you can go a long way in making your developers' life easier. They will only need to work on the modules that are of interest of them, and not have to touch the whole codebase.
    Also, it's quite necessary if you are planning to use community PHP modules, as the vast majority of them is distributed, and versionned via packagist.org, and thus via composer.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Pros
    Open Source
    • Controlling dependencies
    • Fast dependency resolver
    • Easy to use dependency injection
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Cons
    Open Source
    • Sometimes a bit slow, but v2 made a lot of improvements on that
    • If everything is modular, setting up a local dev environment is a bit trickier than having everything in the same repo
    • Might be hard to adopt with some frameworks which have not fully embraced it, like Wordpress
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    If you're familiar with npm or Yarn, you'll feel right at home with composer. The work in pretty much the same way. You can use a composer.json file in your repo to reference specific version of public community modules, and enterprise internal ones. You can also hook some scripts that you would want to execute, like for testing, building your code ...
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Composer only has had positive impacts in our business. It saves a lot of time and resource in order to develop a software.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    ScreenShots