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This package replaces Josh Brown's joshbrw/laravel-module-installer and is an extended version aiming to be backwards compatible.

Requirements

• PHP ^8.1
• Laravel 10+
• Laravel Modules 10+

Install joshbrw/laravel-module-installer if support for Laravel / Laravel Modules < ^10.0 is needed.

Installation

Remove any trace of joshbrw/laravel-module-installer if present, these two modules will clash.

composer remove joshbrw/laravel-module-installer
composer require symbiont/laravel-module-installer

Usage

Ensure you have the type set to laravel-module in your module's composer.json

The installation of a laravel-module is by default backwards compatible with joshbrw/laravel-module-installer though it is not required to end the module's package name with -module.

The only prerequisite is that the type of a Laravel module in the composer.json should be set to laravel-module. If the type is missing, this installer will not be able to act when required by composer.

{
  "name": "vendor/package-name",
  "type": "laravel-module",
  "description": "Some vendor package-name",
  "keywords": ["vendor", "package-name"],
  "etc": "etc"
}

If the type is set correctly, simply require the laravel module using composer composer require vendor/module-name.

Options

Application composer.json

All options are placed in key module-installer in the extra part of the application's composer.json

{
  "extra": {
    "module-installer": {
      /* options */
    }
  }
}

{
  "extra": {
    "module-installer": {
      "install-directory": "Custom",
      "use-symlinks": true
    }
  }
}

Option install-directory

To change the default Modules directory where the modules are installed, set the install-directory to any custom directory.

Option use-symlinks

If set to true, any Laravel module installed will be symlinked to the (default) Modules directory instead of being moved from the vendor directory to the (default) Modules directory, e.g. ./Modules/SomePackage => ./vendor/some-name/some-package-module.

Package composer.json

All options are placed in key module-installer in the extra part of the module package composer.json

{
  "extra": {
    "module-installer": {
      "module-name": "custom-module-name",
      "include-module-vendor": true,
      "include-module-part": true
    }
  }
}

Option module-name

By default, this package uses the <vendor>/<package-name> structure as a base to determine the module's directory path. To change this default behaviour, set the module-name key to any custom name.

Using "module-name": "custom-module-name" will result in a module directory path called Modules/CustomModuleName

Note

The value of module-name will be automatically converted from kebab-case (minus (-) separator only) to PascalCase.

Important!

This also influences the autoload paths of the module. Make sure you set the correct paths.

Option include-module-vendor

To include the package vendor name in the module's directory path, set the include-module-vendor to true (defaults to false).

Given vendor/some-module will result in a module directory path called Modules/Vendor/Some

Note

The vendor name will be automatically converted from kebab-case (minus (-) separator only) to PascalCase.

Option include-module-part

If a package name ends with -module, this will be removed by default. If -module should be part of the module directory path, set include-module-part to true to incorporate it into its path.

Given vendor/some-module results in a module directory path called Modules/SomeModule

Tests

composer test

Authors

• dbf
• Josh Brown

License

MIT license