Warning: “continue” targeting switch is equivalent to “break”. Did you mean to use “continue 2”? [closed]

Answer 1

@aimme's answer should be accepted!

I would extend his answer with @david-baucum's comment because his explanation is clear!

I would also extend his answer that you can run multiple PHP versions at the same time using ppa:ondrej/php.

Then you don't need to change the PHP version simple call the composer like this: /usr/bin/php7.2 /usr/local/bin/composer install

Answer 2

Or download composer.phar from site: "https://getcomposer.org/download/" (manual download), and use command:

php composer.phar require your/package

Answer 3

that seems to be an issue with php7.3, I guess.

If you have different version installed on your system then you could use this:

php7.1 /usr/bin/composer update // or wherever your composer is

it worked for me

Answer 4

after upgrading my xampp from 7.2.0 to 7.3.0 i face this issue but after unistall composer.exe and install latest composer.exe from composer.org than issue resolved

Answer 5

I think it's a version problem, you just have to uninstall the old version of composer, then do a new installation of its new version.

 apt remove composer

and follow the steps:

1. download the composer from its official release site by making use of the following command.

 wget https://getcomposer.org/download/1.6.3/composer.phar

2. Before you proceed with the installation, you should rename before you install and make it an executable file.

  mv composer.phar composer

  chmod +x composer

3. Now install the package by making use the following command.

 ./composer

4. The composer has been successfully installed now, make it access globally using the following command. for Ubuntu 16

 mv composer /usr/bin/

for Ubuntu 18

 mv composer /usr/local/bin/

Answer 6

I had the same issue. but fixed it by downloading composer & installing it from scratch.