Installation¶

Method #1 - Composer (the recommended one)¶

The official way to install Behat is through Composer. Composer is a package manager for PHP. Not only can it install Behat for you right now, it will be able to easily update you to the latest version later when one comes out. If you don’t have Composer already, see the Composer documentation for instructions. After that, just go into your project directory (or create a new one) and run:

$ php composer.phar require --dev behat/behat=~3.0.4

Then you will be able to check installed Behat version using:

$ vendor/bin/behat -V

Method #2 - PHAR (an easy one)¶

An easier way to install Behat is to grab a latest behat.phar from the download page. Make sure that you download a 3+ release. After downloading it, just place it in your project folder (or create a new one) and check the installed version using:

$ php behat.phar -V