README

This composer plugin helps you to move or copy your composer packaged files where you want them to be.

Composer only allows you to install full directories into their own directories. There's really useful composer/installers for custom installation paths but it overwrites everything in folder and doesn't allow coexist of two or more projects. We just let composer install things and take it from there.

I created this originally for installing multiple languages for WordPress with composer. I needed to have multiple packages living in same directory htdocs/wp-content/languages. See how you can update WordPress languages with composer.

How to use it

Follow the baby steps

1.Require "koodimonni/composer-dropin-installer": "*" or "dev-master"

"require": {
    "koodimonni/composer-dropin-installer": "dev-master"
  }

2.Add custom paths into your composer.json -> extra -> dropin-paths.

"extra": {
    "dropin-paths": {
      "htdocs/wp-content/languages/": ["type:wordpress-language"]
    }
  }

3.Enjoy nice dependency management by composer and install things where the fuck you want them to be.

End result looks something like this

{
  "name": "koodimonni/wordpress",
  "type": "project",
  "description": "WordPress with composer languages using Koodimonni dropin installer",
  "homepage": "http://github.com/koodimonni/composer-dropin-installer",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Onni Hakala",
      "email": "onni@koodimonni.fi",
      "homepage": "https://github.com/onnimonni"
    }
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "wordpress", "composer", "wp", "languages"
  ],
  "config": {
    "preferred-install": "dist"
  },
  "repositories": [
    {
      "type": "composer",
      "url": "https://wpackagist.org"
    },
    {
      "type": "composer",
      "url": "https://wp-languages.github.io"
    }
  ],
  "require": {
    "php": ">=5.3.2",

    "koodimonni/composer-dropin-installer": "*",

    "johnpbloch/wordpress": "*",
    "composer/installers": "~1.0",
    "vlucas/phpdotenv": "~1.0.6",


    "koodimonni-language/fi": "*",
    "koodimonni-language/et": "*",
    "koodimonni-language/ru_ru": "*",

    "wpackagist-plugin/akismet": "*",
    "wpackagist-plugin/wp-redis": "*",
    "wpackagist-plugin/woocommerce": "*",
    "wpackagist-plugin/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping": "*"
  },
  "extra": {
    "installer-paths": {
      "htdocs/wp-content/plugins/{$name}/": ["type:wordpress-plugin"],
      "htdocs/wp-content/themes/{$name}": ["type:wordpress-theme"]
    },
    "dropin-paths": {
      "htdocs/wp-content/mu-plugins/": ["type:wordpress-muplugin"],
      "htdocs/wp-content/languages/": ["type:wordpress-language"],
      "htdocs/wp-content/languages/plugins/": ["vendor:wordpress-plugin-language"],
      "htdocs/wp-content/languages/themes/": ["vendor:wordpress-theme-language"],
      "htdocs/wp-content/": [
        "package:wpackagist-plugin/wp-redis:object-cache.php",
        "package:wpackagist-plugin/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping:sunrise.php",
        "type:wordpress-dropin"]
    },
    "wordpress-install-dir": "htdocs/wordpress"
  }
}

Moving vs. copying files

By default this dropin installer moves files from the source to the destination, which means the files disappear from the source.

If you would prefer copying instead (which keeps the files at the source after installation) insert the following configuration to your composer.json config declarations:

"config": {
    "dropin-installer": "copy"
}

But how about the impossible looking syntax?

Dropin syntax consists from four parts: "{path}": "{directive}:{target}:{files}"

Path is relative path to destination folder.

Directive is one of:

• package - e.g. package:koodimonni-language/fi
• vendor - e.g. vendor:koodimonni-language
• type - e.g. type:wordpress-language

Files is optional and by default it will move all files.

In some cases it would be nice to move just one file from the package. I found out that WordPress dropins needed just that. Good example is this one: Domain Mapping or object-cache.php.

Some Notices

• Script works nicely together with composer/installers
• I'm ignoring these files automatically:

.DS_store
.git
.gitignore
composer.json
composer.lock
readme
readme.md
readme.txt
changelog.txt
license
license.md
license.txt
phpunit.xml

• Script requires unix filesystem (OS X,Linux)

Testing

Run PHPUnit tests with

composer test

Tests are run inside the tests/ directory where two dummy Composer projects are used to test dropin installation methods.

Todo

• Handle deletions on removal and on update. This could be easily done with json-database in [vendor-dir]

Changelog

• 1.4 Ignore readme readme.txt changelog.txt & license.txt files automatically too. Thanks @ocean90!
• 1.3 Support for composer 2.0
• 1.2 Added ability to copy files instead of moving them. Thanks @rask for contributing!
• 1.1.0 Replaced Composer\Script\PackageEvent with Composer\Installer\PackageEvent
• 1.0.1 Updated tests to new repository https://wp-languages.github.io
• 1.0 Stable release, updated to newer composer-plugin-api
• 0.2.4 Fixes crashing when 'dropin-paths' is not defined in extra section.
• 0.2.3 Bug fixes and added small notice to user when dropins are runned
• 0.2.2 Bug fixes
• 0.2.1 Bug fixes
• 0.2 Change from custom composer script to composer plugin
• 0.1 Initial release

Finally

Thanks to @Seldaek for all of this hard work with packagist.org!