5.3.3-7+squeeze18 and Zend Framework 2 not working

Question

Issue is that Zend FW2 requirements is 5.3.3 as my php interpreter version, but while it is trying to be installed by composer generates an error:

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

Problem 1 - zendframework/zendframework 2.3.0 requires php >=5.3.23 -> no matching package found. - zendframework/zendframework 2.3.0 requires php >=5.3.23 -> no matching package found. - Installation request for zendframework/zendframework 2.3.* -> satisfiable by zendframework/zendframework[2.3.0].

Potential causes: - A typo in the package name - The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your minimum-stability setting see https://groups.google.com/d/topic/composer-dev/_g3ASeIFlrc/discussion for more details.

Read http://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md for further common problems.

What is the solution, except php version update(not suitable, because on this server i have another project which will not run after update).

Thank you for your time and help!

Answer 1

The only solution you have is to use an older Version of Zend Framework

php composer.phar require zendframework/zendframework 2.2.*

This will leave you at 2.2.5 or 2.2.6 not too sure about that. For all newer Versions you will need at least PHP 5.3.23. Sticking to 5.3.3 just because Ubuntu ships with 5.3.3 is a bad, bad, bad thing! Don't ever make your Web-Server dependent on the version of your Operating System. That's just absurd.

Answer 2

In addition to Sam's answer and your question. It is possible to run more then 1 apache instance at a given time see here. When creating a new config file you'll need to the assign the desired .php version. It could look something like this:

#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
Require all granted
</Directory>
    <Directory "c:/php">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php-cgi.exe"

This particular problem is better be asked in https://serverfault.com/ since this is hardly a zf2 related question.

Edit: I forgot to mention that you'll need to install a additional php version. While 5.3.2 may be the minimum requirement I usually like working with 5.4 or later due to the array feature upgrade and traits.