Update yii2 composer.phar not working

Question

I am using xampp on Windows 8 and I want to run composer.phar update to install Yii2-user as described here:

 http://yii2-user.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting-started/installation.html 

But when I do this, the update does not happen. Instead, they showed me the version number of the composer and a list of possible commands with the composer. There is no error message, and update is in the list of possible commands.

I also tried composer update , but with this I get an error message:

  Problem 1 - yiisoft/yii2 2.0.1 requires bower-asset/jquery 2.1.*@stable | 1.11.*@stabl e -> no matching package found. - yiisoft/yii2 2.0.0 requires bower-asset/jquery 2.1.*@stable | 1.11.*@stabl e -> no matching package found. - yiisoft/yii2 2.0.1 requires bower-asset/jquery 2.1.*@stable | 1.11.*@stabl e -> no matching package found. - Installation request for yiisoft/yii2 * -> satisfiable by yiisoft/yii2[2.0 .0, 2.0.1]. Potential causes: - A typo in the package name - The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your min imum-stability setting see <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/composer-dev/_g3ASeIFlrc/discussion> f or more details. 

Answer 1

It looks like you missed the execution of this command:

 composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.1" 

It should be run only once.

Further information on this can be found in the official documentation and the Github plugin page .

Answer 2

this problem has been recursive since 2014, as well as others, except AssetsManager, permissions .... and somes php Warning or Fatal, at the beginning of the installation. I don’t know how “Composer” is elsewhere. But frankly with Yii2 - this is a disaster. Then, since yii2 no longer needs this for errors. Accumulation 2 is a disaster. So that...

 composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.0" 

With ~ you get the latest plugin for an asset composer ... But this is often not enough !!!!