diff --git a/entities/global.ent b/entities/global.ent
index 25c61af53..1d669b1cd 100644
--- a/entities/global.ent
+++ b/entities/global.ent
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 <!ENTITY url.cldr.locale "http://www.unicode.org/cldr/">
 <!ENTITY url.cloud.ec2 "http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/">
 <!ENTITY url.cloud.ec2.sdk "http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforphp/">
+<!ENTITY url.composer "https://getcomposer.org/">
 <!ENTITY url.comspecs "https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/desktop/com/component-object-model--com--portal">
 <!ENTITY url.com.visible "https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.runtime.interopservices.comvisibleattribute">
 <!ENTITY url.connectionstrings "http://www.connectionstrings.com/">
@@ -327,6 +328,9 @@
 <!ENTITY url.oracle.taf.dbmsservice "https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=dblatest&amp;id=GUID-C11449DC-EEDE-4BB8-9D2C-0A45198C1928">
 <!ENTITY url.oracle.taf.clientconfig "https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=dblatest&amp;id=GUID-8F532535-C401-4B51-BE0B-04FD74BB0621">
 <!ENTITY url.oreilly.cjk-inf "https://resources.oreilly.com/examples/9781565922242/blob/master/doc/cjk.inf">
+<!ENTITY url.packagist "https://packagist.org">
+<!-- linking to specific packagist packages is done like so: &url.packagist.package;package_name -->
+<!ENTITY url.packagist.package "https://packagist.org/packages/">
 <!ENTITY url.password.compat "https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat">
 <!ENTITY url.pcre.changelog "http://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt">
 <!ENTITY url.pcre.man "http://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt">
@@ -558,6 +562,8 @@
 <!ENTITY link.superglobals '<link xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" linkend="language.variables.predefined">superglobals</link>'>
 <!ENTITY link.autoload '<link xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" linkend="language.oop5.autoload">__autoload</link>'>
 
+<!ENTITY link.composer '<link xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="&url.pecl;">Composer</link>'>
+
 <!ENTITY link.pecl '<link xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="&url.pecl;">PECL</link>'>
 
 <!ENTITY spec.strftime  'http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html'>
diff --git a/manual.xml.in b/manual.xml.in
index 17d7e556e..6c807c65b 100644
--- a/manual.xml.in
+++ b/manual.xml.in
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
   &install.cloud.index;
   &install.fpm.index;
   &install.pecl;
+  &install.composer;
   &install.ini;
  </book>