composer-php
Difference between PSR-4 and classmap autoloading?
PSR-4 standard requires of you a strict filesystem structure based on namespaces. Say you have an app in src directory with App namespace, then all sub-namespaces will mirror subdirectories and class names will be the same as file names without the .php extension. { “autoload”: { “psr-4”: { “App\\”: “src/” } } } src/ Foo/ … Read more
How does composer handle multiple versions of the same package?
To question 1 Yes Composer can only install one version of each extension/package. To question 2 Because of answer 1: Composer would consider your main project and the external package as incompatible. In this case you could stay with version 5 at your main project too. ask the external package owner to upgrade to version … Read more
How to ignore directories with Composer?
This is not possible in Composer. However, there are some ways to do it: When you run the update or install command with –prefer-dist, Composer tries to download the archive on github. You can remove the test directory from the archives by putting this in a .gitattributes file in the root directory of your project: … Read more