Newly submitted Package in Packagist showing errors while running composer require - php

Question

I have created a simple PHP-validation plugin.
I submit it in Packagist.Everything in Packagist seems fine but when I run my composer require command
composer require rahulreghunath11/php-rvalidation
Could not find package rahulreghunath11/php-rvalidation at any version for your minimum-stability (stable). Check the package spelling or your minimum-stability
showing this error.
my composer file is
{
"name": "rahulreghunath11/php-rvalidation",
"type": "library",
"description": "PHP form validation plugin ",
"keywords": ["validation","bootstrap validation"],
"homepage": "https://github.com/rahulreghunath11/php-form-validation",
"license": "MIT",
"authors": [
{
"name": "Rahul Reghunath",
"email": "reghunath11#gmail.com",
"role": "developer"
}
]
}
any idea?

Answer 1

That error means that the composer.json file for your project (NOT your validation plugin) is missing a minimum-stability indicator that allows development packages, so it's defaulting to stable.
Your validation plugin is only available as dev-master, because you haven't tagged any releases in Github yet. That means that in order for the require to work, you either have to explicitly tell it to fetch dev-master, or you need to set minimum-stability for your project to dev.
Edit:
To tell your project to use the dev-master package, specify it manually in your (project) composer.json file:
{
"name": "example/example-app",
"require": {
"rahulreghunath11/php-rvalidation": "dev-master"
}
}
Alternatively, if you want to be able to use composer require from the commandline and have it add the dev-master version automatically, set the minimum-stability to dev in your (project) composer.json file:
{
"name": "example/example-app",
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"require": {
}
}
Now composer will let you add packages that do not have releases:
composer require rahulreghunath11/php-rvalidation