konafets/installers

A multi-framework Composer library installer

A Multi-Framework Composer Library Installer

, _(*1)

This is for PHP package authors to require in their composer.json. It will magically install their package to the correct location based on the specified package type., _(*2)

Current Supported Package Types:, _(*3)

• CakePHP 2+ cakephp-
• CodeIgniter codeigniter-
• Drupal drupal-
• FuelPHP fuelphp-
• Joomla joomla-
• Kohana kohana-
• Laravel laravel-
• Lithium lithium-
• Magento magento-
• Mako mako-
• MediaWiki mediawiki-
• PHPCSStandard `phpcsstandard-
• phpBB phpbb-
• PPI ppi-
• SilverStripe silverstripe-
• Symfony1 symfony1-
• WordPress wordpress-
• Zend zend-

Natively Supported Frameworks:, _(*4)

The following frameworks natively work with Composer and will be installed to the default vendor directory. composer/installers is not needed to install packages with these frameworks:, _(*5)

• Aura
• Symfony2

Example composer.json File

This is an example for a CakePHP plugin. The only important parts to set in your composer.json file are "type": "cakephp-plugin" which describes what your package is and "require": { "composer/installers": "*" } which tells composer to load the custom installers., _(*6)

``` json { "name": "you/ftp", "type": "cakephp-plugin", "require": { "composer/installers": "*" } }, <sub>(*7)</sub>

This would install your package to the `app/Plugin/Ftp/` folder of a CakePHP app
when a user runs `php composer.phar install`.

So submit your packages to [packagist.org](http://packagist.org)!

## Current Supported Types

* CakePHP
    * **cakephp-plugin**
* CodeIgniter
    * codeigniter-library
    * codeigniter-third-party
    * codeigniter-module
* Drupal
    * **drupal-module**
    * **drupal-theme**
    * drupal-profile
    * drupal-drush
* FuelPHP
    * fuelphp-module
* Joomla
    * joomla-component
    * joomla-module
    * joomla-template
    * joomla-plugin
    * joomla-library
* Kohana
    * **kohana-module**
* Laravel
    * laravel-library
* Lithium
    * **lithium-library**
    * **lithium-source**
* Magento
    * magento-library
    * magento-skin
    * magento-theme
* Mako
    * mako-package
* MediaWiki
    * mediawiki-extension
* phpBB
    * phpbb-extension
    * phpbb-style
    * phpbb-language
* PPI
    * **ppi-module**
* SilverStripe
    * silverstripe-module
    * silverstripe-theme
* symfony1
    * **symfony1-plugin**
* WordPress
    * **wordpress-plugin**
    * **wordpress-theme**
* Zend
    * zend-library
    * zend-extra

Types in **bold** have been marked stable and you can rely on those install
paths to not change. A new type must be created if any adjustments are
requested for an install path.

## Custom Install Paths

If you are consuming a package that uses the `composer/installers` you can
override the install path with the following extra in your `composer.json`:

``` json
{
    "extra": {
        "installer-paths": {
            "your/custom/path/{$name}/": ["shama/ftp", "vendor/package"]
        }
    }
}

This would use your custom path for each of the listed packages. The available variables to use in your paths are: ${name}, {$vendor}, {$type}., <sub>(*8)</sub>

Contribute!

• Fork and clone.
• Run the command php composer.phar install --dev to install the dev dependencies. See Composer.
• Use the command phpunit to run the tests. See PHPUnit.
• Create a branch, commit, push and send us a pull request.

To ensure a consistent code base, you should make sure the code follows the Coding Standards which we borrowed from Symfony., <sub>(*9)</sub>

If you would like to help, please take a look at the list of issues., <sub>(*10)</sub>