title: Cannot get Composer for PHP to work in Win8
body: <p>I installed the Composer for PHP application on my Windows 8 laptop, and I am trying to run</p>
  
  <pre><code>composer.phar install
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>from CMD where the current directory is the project-folder of my XAMPP-server.
  In this folder I have a file called:</p>
  
  <pre><code>composer.json
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>With this content:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
  "require" {
      "zurb/foundation": "v4.3.*"
      }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then I am asked, by Windows, what program I would like to run PHAR-files with...
  So, I chose php.exe from the XAMPP-server installation.</p>
  
  <p>Then I get this output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>c:\xampp\htdocs\playground1&gt;composer.phar install
     ______
    / ____/___  ____ ___  ____  ____  ________  _____
   / /   / __ \/ __ `__ \/ __ \/ __ \/ ___/ _ \/ ___/
  / /___/ /_/ / / / / / / /_/ / /_/ (__  )  __/ /
  \____/\____/_/ /_/ /_/ .___/\____/____/\___/_/
                      /_/
  Composer version a2a70380c14a20b3f611d849eae7342f2e35c763 2013-10-21 09:51:22
  
  Usage:
    [options] command [arguments]
  
  Options:
    --help           -h Display this help message.
    --quiet          -q Do not output any message.
    --verbose        -v|vv|vvv Increase the verbosity of messages: 1 for normal ou
  tput, 2 for more verbose output and 3 for debug
    --version        -V Display this application version.
    --ansi              Force ANSI output.
    --no-ansi           Disable ANSI output.
    --no-interaction -n Do not ask any interactive question.
    --profile           Display timing and memory usage information
    --working-dir    -d If specified, use the given directory as working directory
  .
  
  Available commands:
    about            Short information about Composer
    archive          Create an archive of this composer package
    config           Set config options
    create-project   Create new project from a package into given directory.
    depends          Shows which packages depend on the given package
    diagnose         Diagnoses the system to identify common errors.
    dump-autoload    Dumps the autoloader
    dumpautoload     Dumps the autoloader
    global           Allows running commands in the global composer dir ($COMPOSER
  _HOME).
    help             Displays help for a command
    init             Creates a basic composer.json file in current directory.
    install          Installs the project dependencies from the composer.lock file
   if present, or falls back on the composer.json.
    licenses         Show information about licenses of dependencies
    list             Lists commands
    require          Adds required packages to your composer.json and installs the
  m
    run-script       Run the scripts defined in composer.json.
    search           Search for packages
    self-update      Updates composer.phar to the latest version.
    selfupdate       Updates composer.phar to the latest version.
    show             Show information about packages
    status           Show a list of locally modified packages
    update           Updates your dependencies to the latest version according to
  composer.json, and updates the composer.lock file.
    validate         Validates a composer.json
  
  c:\xampp\htdocs\playground1&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So, to me it seems that the Composer program doens't recognize that I have given it some parameters to work with... what could be the mistake here?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>