Composer require and dependency management in PHP - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to require a package using Composer.

PHP

composer [1] monolog/monolog

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Arequire

Bremove

Cupdate

Dinstall

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'install' instead of 'require' to add a package.

Using 'update' which updates existing packages but does not add new ones.

The composer require command adds a package to your project and updates composer.json.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the command to update all dependencies to the latest versions allowed by composer.json.

PHP

composer [1]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Aremove

Binstall

Crequire

Dupdate

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'install' which installs dependencies but does not update them.

Using 'require' which adds new packages instead of updating.

The composer update command updates all dependencies to the latest versions according to the version constraints in composer.json.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to remove a package.

PHP

composer [1] monolog/monolog

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Ainstall

Bupdate

Cremove

Drequire

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'update' which updates packages but does not remove them.

Using 'require' which adds packages instead of removing.

The correct command to remove a package is composer remove.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to check the installed version of a package and list all available Composer commands.

PHP

composer [1] monolog/monolog
composer [2]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Ashow

Blist

Crequire

Dupdate

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using 'require' to show package info.

Using 'update' to list packages.

composer show monolog/monolog shows details about that package.

composer list lists all available Composer commands, but to list installed packages you use composer show without arguments. Here, 'list' is used to show commands.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to add a package with a specific version constraint and then update dependencies.

PHP

composer [1] guzzlehttp/guzzle:[2]
composer [3]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Arequire

B7.5.0

Cupdate

Dinstall

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'install' instead of 'update' after requiring a package.

Not specifying the version constraint correctly.

Use composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle:7.5.0 to add that exact version.

Then composer update updates dependencies accordingly.