Composer init Author name not valid.

[CupOfTea696]

Hi,

Whenever I run composer init and want to accept the default suggestion for Author, composer says it's an invalid author string. I know this is because my Github username has numbers in it, but I always manually modify the composer.json to add those anyway. Could the validation be modified so that it also accepts numbers in the Author string?

[alcohol]

This makes no sense.

https://github.com/composer/composer/blob/master/src/Composer/Command/InitCommand.php#L41-L56

Can you maybe tell us what error you are actually receiving? And what value for "author" you are submitting?

[CupOfTea696]

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I just took a screenshot you'll be able to see immediately what I meant.

[alcohol]

Ok, I see why. I'll have a solution soon.

[alcohol]

On a side note, I recommend you use your actual real name in the author field, not some nickname. Author is not the same as vendor, they do not have to match.

[CupOfTea696]

Yeah, that makes sense. Regardless, this way I can quickly accept it and then manually change the Author name and I don't have to type my email anymore :p

[shaikhAli]

hello , CupOfTea696
did u get the solution for this as i am alsogetting the same error in composer init comand

[alcohol]

@shaikhAli this issue has been resolved and you should no longer get this error (unless you are using an ancient version of Composer).

[shaikhAli]

thanx @alcohol
issue is solved