When you are running a specific PHP version in production, you need to generate a "composer.lock" locally based on that.
To instruct Composer which PHP version you use in Production servers. You can run the following command.
composer config platform.php 7.2
Which will add a similar values to your composer.json file.
"config": {
"preferred-install": "dist",
"sort-packages": true,
"optimize-autoloader": true,
"platform": {
"php": "7.2"
}
},
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Sometimes you will find the need to ignore these platforms requirements, which can be done like this:
composer update phpunit/phpunit --ignore-platform-reqs