Re: [PEAR] How do I install http_request2 package via composer?

Hi Tyler,

On 18.02.2014 11:17, Tyler Collier wrote:
> I saw that http_request2 is on github and it has a composer.json file. But
> there is no description on how to add http_request2 to my project via
> composer.

I think these are the instructions you are looking for:

https://getcomposer.org/doc/02-libraries.md#publishing-to-a-vcs

> So I added these sections to my composer.json:
>
> "repositories": [
>          {
>              "type": "pear",
>              "url": "pear.php.net"
>          }
>      ],
>      "require": {
>          "pear/http_request2": "*"
>      },
>
> But composer tells me:
>
> $ sudo composer update
> Loading composer repositories with package information
> Initializing PEAR repository http://pear.php.net
> Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
> Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.
>
>    Problem 1
>      - Installation request for pear/http_request2 * -> satisfiable by
> fpoirotte/http_request2[2.1.1-patch1].
>      - fpoirotte/http_request2 2.1.1-patch1 requires pear/pear_exception
> dev-master -> no matching package found.

Looks like composer does some black magic here and uses a fork of HTTP_Request2 
rather than an official repository.

I didn't yet bother to register HTTP_Request2 on packagist, maybe this is the case.

> Why is pear_exception not found? Can someone add composer instructions to
> the github page? https://github.com/pear/HTTP_Request2