Force composer to require PHP Version between Version X and Version Y

Question

we have a mix of different PHP versions running on your servers (max 5.3.5) and development machines (max 5.5.9).

Now we ran into the problem that we did a "composer update" to get the latest Version of some external Bundles. Since your composer.json looks like

"require": {         "php": ">=5.3.3",         .....     }, 

we get some Bundles that required PHP 5.5. No problem on our dev machines, but on the server :(

Is there any possibility to tell composer to require a PHP version between 5.3.3 and 5.3.5? Or a max available Version?

I tried

"require": {         "php": ">=5.3.3, <=5.3.5",             .....         }, 

and

"require": {             "php": "<=5.3.5",                 .....             }, 

but both didn't work out. I get a "The requested package php could not be found in any version, there may be a typo in the package name." Error.

Any Ideas? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Since the config parameter in composer.json is available. You could something like this:

{     "name": ".../...",     "config": {         "platform": {             "php": "5.3.5"         }     },     "require": {         ...     } }  

https://getcomposer.org/doc/06-config.md#platform