This composer plugin helps you to move 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.

{
  "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": "[email protected]",
      "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"
  }
}

##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 - eg. package:koodimonni-language/fi
• vendor - eg vendor:koodimonni-language
• type - eg. 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.md
readme.txt
license
phpunit.xml

• Script requires unix filesystem (OS X,Linux)

##Todo

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

##Changelog

• 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