How do I create a project based on a specific version of Symfony using composer?

Question

I want to create a project based on Symfony 2.4.6.

These commands:

../composer.phar create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition=v2.4.6 ./ ../composer.phar create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition ./ 2.4.6 ../composer.phar create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition ./ v2.4.6 

all say that they are installing Symfony 2.4.6, but I end up with 2.4.9 in my composer.lock and in vendors/. Is there a way to force creation of a project based specifically on 2.4.6?

Answer 1

try the Symfony Installer ...

To create a traditional web application :

symfony new --full my_project_name 

and to build a lightweight app like a microservice, console application or API :

symfony new my_project_name 

to install the current LTS version :

symfony new my_project_name --version=lts 

to install the latest stable version :

symfony new my_project_name --version=stable 

to install the development version :

symfony new my_project_name --version=next 

to install a specific version :

symfony new my_project_name --version=4.4 

OR with composer :

composer create-project symfony/website-skeleton my_project ^4.4.0 

to install a full project in the 4.4.X stable version

or :

composer create-project symfony/skeleton my_project ^4.4.0  

to install a lightweight project with fewer requirements

Answer 2

I tried:

composer create-project symfony/website-skeleton my_project 4.4.0  

but this didn't work. I got following error:

Could not find package symfony/skeleton with version 4.4.0.

Then I tried:

composer create-project symfony/website-skeleton my_project ^4.4.0 

and this worked.