Installing using composer

[NotionCommotion]

Trying to install laravel, and was following a tutorial at https://www.tutorialspoint.com/laravel/laravel_installation.htm.  Why is --prefer-dist directory not being recognized as a flag, but is being used fort he target directory?  https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#create-project shows doing something similar with php composer.phar create-project doctrine/orm path 2.2.*.  composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog described by https://laravel.com/docs/5.3 will install it in ./blog.

[Michael@devserver testl]$ pwd
/var/www/testl
[Michael@devserver testl]$ ls -la
total 8
drwxrwxr-x.  2 Michael Michael 4096 Nov 22 07:21 .
drwxrwxr-x. 28 root    root    4096 Nov 22 07:21 ..
[Michael@devserver testl]$ composer create-project laravel/laravel –-prefer-dist
Installing laravel/laravel (v5.3.16)
  - Installing laravel/laravel (v5.3.16)
    Loading from cache

Created project in –-prefer-dist
> php -r "file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');"
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
  - Installing vlucas/phpdotenv (v2.4.0)
etc, etc, etc....
    Loading from cache

symfony/var-dumper suggests installing ext-symfony_debug ()
phpunit/phpunit suggests installing phpunit/php-invoker (~1.1)
phpunit/phpunit suggests installing ext-xdebug (*)
Writing lock file
Generating autoload files
> Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postUpdate
> php artisan optimize
Generating optimized class loader
The compiled class file has been removed.
> php artisan key:generate
Application key [base64:g+JF6MyWuEynyoyh//Afo1xg/2RiZSn5tF3cf1mQZp0=] set successfully.
[Michael@devserver testl]$ ls -la
total 12
drwxrwxr-x.  3 Michael Michael 4096 Nov 22 07:22 .
drwxrwxr-x. 28 root    root    4096 Nov 22 07:21 ..
drwxrwxr-x. 12 Michael Michael 4096 Nov 22 07:22 –-prefer-dist
[Michael@devserver testl]$

[kicken]

The options are supposed to come first:

 

C:\>composer help create-project
Usage:
  create-project [options] [--] [<package>] [<directory>] [<version>]

 

Putting the --prefer-dist after works fine for me but maybe your version of composer is more picky? Are you using the latest version?

[NotionCommotion]

The options are supposed to come first:

 

Putting the --prefer-dist after works fine for me but maybe your version of composer is more picky? Are you using the latest version?

 

I'm using Composer version 1.2.0.

 

Even https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/quickstart shows it as composer create-project laravel/laravel quickstart --prefer-dist, however, since the directory is also given, it doesn't attempt to use the option as the directory path.

 

Oh well, all is good.  Thank you kicken for your reply.