I've got a lot of research about it but I found nothing that can help my problem. I'm developing a project for now using laravel5.1 and I'm using PHP5.6 version, however I also want to install the new laravel version which is L5.5 but the minimum PHP requirement is PHP7.0 and I chose the 5.6 version of PHP in my installed composer.
How can I switch this two versions of PHP without reinstalling the composer again and again? So if I work with Laravel5.1 I can use the composer with PHP5.6, otherwise I use Laravel5.5 with PHP7 version.
Note:
I'm using WAMP Server that has PHP5.6 & PHP7 available to use.
Create a Windows batch file that calls the composer.phar file using the php7 binary. Let's call the file composer7.bat:
#echo OFF
:: in case DelayedExpansion is on and a path contains !
setlocal DISABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
c:\path\to\php7\directory\php.exe "%~dp0composer.phar" %*
Save the file along with the originally installed composer.bat file, mine is located in C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin\ directory.
Now call the php7 composer with the new command:
composer7 require ...
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I have installed xampp with different php versions of php (5.6 and 7.1) on my C:
when im trying to composer install for the project to have a vendor folder
it reads the php version of 5.6 instead of the 7.1 windows
I tried searching
and i saw one changing on environmental variable but i cant see the path for php versions
i also try Composer does not detect php7 instead it uses 5.6. How can I set the CLI to use php7
but im using git bash not sudo (because ihave Wiondows as OS)
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I have composer installed on windows 8.1. I use it to download drupal distributions and modules. I have also installed acquia dev desktop. As you know that dev desktop comes with different versions of php and it has separate folders for it. I have setup composer to use php 5.6. How can I make it use php 7?
Should I uninstall composer and install again or what?
IF you have multiple php version installed in your system
you can run composer with different versions like
In linux
PHP
usr/local/php usr/bin/composer install
for PHP 7.1
usr/local/php7.1 /usr/local/composer install
actually the idea is which version you wants to run get its bin path and then run the composer.
In Windows.
path/to/php.exe composer install
Hope this helps
If you just want to ignore the php version dependency then you can use this -
--ignore-platform-reqs
Example:
composer require symfony/css-selector --ignore-platform-reqs
This way you don't have to edit Environment variables(windows os) or using any full path of php etc. This very useful when I use different php lib from github which requires different php version set in my windows Environment variables though I have all PHP versions in my WAMP server so it will not be any problem running those lib after installing.
In my case worked with this:
ea-php72 /opt/cpanel/composer/bin/composer update
I am trying to install a library https://github.com/thephpleague/csv via composer but getting following errors i.e
'This package requires php >= 5.5.9 but your php version <5.4.45> does not satisfy that requirement.'
My current PHP version is 5.6.30 but for some reason composer is showing <5.4.45> which is strange.
I am using ACQUIA DEV DESKTOP on WINDOWS and can switch between PHP versions easily and can check PHP version either by a) dpm(phpinfo()); or b) drush php which is showing same version as set in ACQUIA DEV DESKTOP.
This leads to an issue linked with the composer as it's reading a wrong PHP version.
Steps I have followed to install this library i.e
Copied composer.phar file from 'DevDesktop/tools' folder onto my Drupal project root and then via drush used 'composer require league/csv' which gives me this error ....
'This package requires php >= 5.5.9 but your php version <5.4.45> does not satisfy that requirement.'
'drush php' gives me this... 'Psy Shell v0.8.3 by Justin Jileman'
I have checked online resources for the similar errors but none of the solution out there matches my situation hence posting this question.
Not sure if this is linked to the issue but I have noticed 'DevDesktop\tools\drush.bat' have first line i.e
IF "%PHP_ID%"=="" (SET PHP_ID=php5_5)
which I changed to
IF "%PHP_ID%"=="" (SET PHP_ID=php5_6)
Stack stop/start and tried to download 'composer require lease/csv' but no change (same results).
Thanks in advance.
Found a solution for this error and wanted to share so as it helps anyone else having same problem and possibly improve the solution as it seems to be a quick fix while it should be a universal fix :)
If you install Acquia DevDesktop software, composer comes with this by default.
From Acquia DevDesktop software, we can easily switch between php versions and can also set a default php version but that was not helpful when I try to download library via composer which kept on reading version 5.4.
As Acquia DevDesktop supports different PHP versions i.e 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7. By default composer was reading php version 5.4 and I still need to find the file which needs to be modified so as default php version can be changed for composer.
In my case what I did was...
Go to Program Files > DevDesktop > tools folder.
There are 4 files having different extensions but same name i.e 'composer'. Remove these all files will remove composer from your system.
Download composer.exe from https://getcomposer.org/ and give it a target folder i.e 'Program Files > DevDesktop > php5_6' and install.
Once installed, now go to your project and by using command prompt or drush console, type 'composer require league/csv' which should download all files in your projects 'vendor' folder.
I have two projects running php7.0 and 5.6. Now the default version of php cli is 7.0. I need to run composer-update on project 5.6 but the composer is reading php7.0 so it will throw an error since there are features that only compatible in 5.6. Is there a way to tell composer which version to use during composer-install and composer-update without changing the default php-cli?
Yes, you just have to specify which PHP version to use by directly calling the intended PHP bin file.
So, instead of
php composer.phar update
You have to use something like
/path/to/php5.6/bin/php composer.phar update
In my case, on a CentOS server with Plesk (default PHP version was 5.4, but I also had 5.6 and 7.0 installed), I had to use :
/opt/plesk/php/5.6/bin/php composer.phar update
I want to upgrade to PHP 5.4.0 in XAMPP. I'm using windows operating system. I searched on web, but there was no proper guide for this as it was released recently.
Can anyone give me some instructions on how to upgrade to PHP 5.4.0 in XAMPP (windows)?
Download the latest binary version of PHP (make sure to get the .zip package not the installer)
De-archive it to a directory
Copy the contents of the directory in the php subfolder of your XAMPP installation directory, overwriting the files which are already present
Overwrite the files which are already present in the apache\bin directory with the newer versions.
Now the trick: take the files which have a "_2" in their names (for example php5apache2_2.dll or php5apache2_2_filter.dll), copy them in the apache\bin subdirectory and remove the "_2" part, overwriting the existing files. This is necessary because by XAMPP uses Apache version 2.2 and the files with the 2 prefix are built for Apache 2.0, so you must take the files build for the newer version (which has a different plugin interface) and rename them in the filenames XAMPP expects.
Source
I found a working php_uploadprogress.dll extension for xampp windows with php 5.4 here:
http://www.fsbcomputers.com/php_uploadprogress
there are 32 and 64 bit versions as well as a preview for php 5.5.
By the way, the php build numbers, apache /xampp refers to are:
PHP 5.2: 20060613
PHP 5.3: 20090626
PHP 5.4: 20100525
I hope that you are still following this, I installed php 5.4 on the latest xampp stable with no problem.
Fortunately for you, there is a beta update of xampp which makes life easier. http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-beta.html
Just make sure to make a complete backup of your old xampp directory, and export your old databases so you can import them into your new (updated) mysql installation. Alternatively you do not need to update mysql, I use this beta and I can say that it's pretty solid.
EDIT: The pop-up warning were a problem that I had too, I recommend using the latest beta. But, you can fix the errors and use php 5.4 on your old install (not recommended) by commenting out the following line in php.ini
extension=php_oci8.dll
Change to
;extension=php_oci8.dll
I have done the upgrade in ubuntu. Following are the steps to do the upgrade.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart