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HappyDeveloper
HappyDeveloper

Reputation: 12805

composer: How to find the exact version of a package?

Suppose I'm writing a library A, that depends on another library, monolog for instance.

I want to install the latest version of monolog, so I just put this inside composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "monolog/monolog": "*.*.*"
    }
}

Then I run $ php composer.phar install.

I was expecting to find the version installed, inside composer.lock, but it's not there:

{
    "hash": "d7bcc4fe544b4ef7561918a8fc6ce009",
    "packages": [
        {
            "package": "monolog/monolog",
            "version": "dev-master",
            "source-reference": "2eb0c0978d290a1c45346a1955188929cb4e5db7"
        }
    ],
    "packages-dev": null,
    "aliases": [

    ],
    "minimum-stability": "dev",
    "stability-flags": [

    ]
}

I need the version because I want to tie my library to a specific set of versions, eg: If I find the version is 1.3.5, in my composer.json I would like to put something like this:

    "require": {
        "monolog/monolog": "1.3.*"
    }

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 167

Views: 236226

Answers (8)

Namig Hajiyev
Namig Hajiyev

Reputation: 1531

To find a package by name run this command ( laravel is an example)

composer search laravel

To find info about a package run this command ( laravel/laravel is an example)

composer show -a laravel/laravel

Upvotes: 1

Eng_Farghly
Eng_Farghly

Reputation: 2997

If you are using git version control system, you will search easily for any package

composer show |grep packagename

For Example

composer show |grep monolog

If you aren't installing git, you can install grep program from this link, link it with environment variables and write same previous command in Cmd

If you don't know how to link program with environment variables, view this link after linking it write the same command on the above

Upvotes: 10

Koeno
Koeno

Reputation: 1573

If you want to check the version within PHP itself, you can use the composer Runtime Utilities:

\Composer\InstalledVersions::getVersion('my/package')

See https://getcomposer.org/doc/07-runtime.md for more information.

Upvotes: 7

Jimmix
Jimmix

Reputation: 6506

If you're just interested to get the output as the package version number like: 1.7.5 or 1.x-dev or dev-master.

Linux console snippet (composer & sed):

composer show 'monolog/monolog' | sed -n '/versions/s/^[^0-9]\+\([^,]\+\).*$/\1/p'

or (composer, grep & cut):

composer show 'monolog/monolog' | grep 'versions' | grep -o -E '\*\ .+' | cut -d' ' -f2 | cut -d',' -f1;

Upvotes: 24

Mohsen
Mohsen

Reputation: 4235

You can use show all, specially when dont have package.json file, get available packages from packagist.org:

composer show "monolog/monolog" --all

Also you can specify versions

composer show "monolog/monolog" 1.* --all

Upvotes: 11

Kévin Ferradj
Kévin Ferradj

Reputation: 956

You can use composer show like this:

composer show package/name

Upvotes: 82

Ross Deane
Ross Deane

Reputation: 3200

I know it's an old question, but...

composer.phar show

Will show all the currently installed packages and their version information. (This was shown in previous versions of Composer only when using the now-deprecated -i option.)

To see more details, specify the name of the package as well:

composer.phar show monolog/monolog

That will show many things, including commit MD5 hash, source URL, license type, etc.

Upvotes: 242

naderman
naderman

Reputation: 1090

Technically "dev-master" is the exact version that you ended up using there. It is the development branch, and thus the very latest version.

The best place to look for available versions for composer packages is Packagist since that's the place composer loads the versions from when you install packages. The monolog versions are listed on http://packagist.org/packages/monolog/monolog.

Upvotes: 7

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