When working on a project that uses Composer to manage dependencies, you can sometimes run into conflicts - what is sometimes referred to as "dependency hell". In this article I'll run through the issues you may encounter during a composer update, and what can be done to resolve them.

Usually when doing PHP web development on Windows, the reccomended route is to use a virtual machine based solution such as Vagrant to run a true LAMP (Linux OS, Apache web server, MySQL or MariaDB database, and PHP) stack. Sometimes there are reasons why you might not want a virtualized sever, but a native Windows install, or WAMP. As we'll see in this tutorial, it is not all that difficult to get a native WAMP stack running.