Composer requrie ext-redis

Question

I'm trying to set phpredis extension as a requirement for my application. Here is my composer.json:

"ext-redis": ">=2.2.7"

A've also tried these options: "^2.2.7", 2.2.7@dev

But all the time I'm getting the error below:

  Problem 1
    - The requested PHP extension ext-redis >=2.2.7 has the wrong version (2.2.8-devphp7) installed. Install or enable PHP's redis extension.

hy my requirement of >=2.2.7 doesn't stack with an actual version 2.2.8-devphp7 which seems to fit into this version constraint?

I even tried explicitly `2.2.8-devphp7` and composer fails with "Invalid version string". It very much points into a composer issue. — Markus Malkusch, Apr 29 '16 at 08:30
I filed an [issue](https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/5264). — Markus Malkusch, Apr 29 '16 at 08:42

Markus Malkusch · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-26T17:50:13.103

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The version 2.2.8-devphp7 is simply not supported and resolves to 0:

We simply cannot parse it. This means that the installed version ends up being unrecognized, and thus it defaults to 0

and will never be supported:

You have to treat that version as a 0 and allow it by the discouraged * constraint.

Update: It is now supported since composer-1.1.1

edited May 26 '16 at 17:50

answered May 04 '16 at 18:22

Markus Malkusch

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It seems that the issue has been [fixed](https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/5264#issuecomment-219495583) and 2.2.8-devphp7 is now considered as 2.2.8 – ozahorulia May 26 '16 at 15:56

Composer requrie ext-redis

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