Ziggi
(Ziggi)
August 11, 2014, 2:03pm
1
Well,
Can anybody here explain me briefly how to use Composer having multiple Yii projects on a computer?
For instance:
Let’s say I have one Yii ‘Advanced’ project installed with:
php composer.phar create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced /var/www/yii_adv
and I have another ‘Basic’ project installed with:
php composer.phar create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev yiisoft/yii2-app-basic /var/www/yii_bas
Now the question is:
How to add certain extension (using Composer) specifically to let’s say ‘Advanced’ project and leave ‘Basic’ one intact?
Thanks ahead for your feedback!
Rgs,
kokomo
(Mwerlberger85)
August 11, 2014, 2:14pm
2
I’m still not very used to composer but IMHO the projects are already independently with your described folder structure.
If you want to use a extension just add it to the composer.json file in your desired project (e.g. yii_adv ).
Then do
user@host:/var/www/yii_adv/ # composer update
inside yii_adv folder.
New extension should now be available in yii_adv project.
Ziggi
(Ziggi)
August 11, 2014, 2:22pm
3
Thank you!
Anyway - this is a bit confusing with this way with editing JSONs.
I would rather has a Composer command like "add2project" where I provide a project name and required extension and it adds necessary JSON entries itself and then updates the project…
Thanks anyway!
Hey Ziggi,
Here are some examples of what you were looking for:
php composer.phar require yiisoft/yii2 "*"
or
php composer.phar require "michelf/php-markdown:>=1.3" "ezyang/htmlpurifier:>4.5.0"
if you have composer installed globally you can do:
composer require "extension" "version_of_extension"
also check the guide at:
Yii2 composer guide
Ziggi
(Ziggi)
August 11, 2014, 4:20pm
5
Hi marianzburlea
Unfortunately - it seems I musunderstand how Composer knows what project I mean while executing "require"