how to install the doctrine mongodb odm via composer

Question

I am working on a project with the php and mongodb stacks. I need the assistance of an ODM to speed up development time. A problem I have now however is this line, $ composer require "doctrine/mongodb-odm=~1.0" in which directory should i execute this command, the application's root directory or anywhere in my command line???

Answer 1

Copy the following to composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "doctrine/mongodb-odm": "~1.0",
        "doctrine/mongodb-odm-bundle": "~3.0"
    },
}

after that run the command in respective folder

php composer.phar update doctrine/mongodb-odm doctrine/mongodb-odm-bundle