Composer error on installing to phpBB

Question

I want to start making my own mods for PHPBB however I am having trouble setting up composer.

I have installed composer to my windows server and I run this in my command line

composer require :

C:\Inetpub\vhosts\Servers\5\localuser\gorrors\httpdocs\community

and I get this error:

"`UnexpectedValueExpection`" cannot parse version.

When googling this error message everyone else seems to fix the error by running selfupdate however when I do this it says I have the latest version?

What am I doing wrong? Any help would be great

Answer 1

Seems that you are using the require command wrong here. It is used to add a specified package to the composer.json file as one that your project depends on.

As for the expected package name... From the manual :

The package name consists of a vendor name and the project's name. Often these will be identical - the vendor name just exists to prevent naming clashes. It allows two different people to create a library named json , which would then just be named igorw/json and seldaek/json .

After specifying dependencies you can perform composer install , which will search for the packages from the set up repositories . Note that:

By default only the Packagist repository is registered in Composer. You can add more repositories to your project by declaring them in composer.json .