This is a super basic Magento/Composer question — how are users (i.e. me) supposed to make a Magento system aware of packages installed via composer/firegento?
That is — most of the tutorials I've found cover setting up a composer.json
file, and I've managed the without a problem. I can install packages into vendor
to my heart's content.
They'll also mention adding the following to your composer.json
so "[something]" knows where to install the modules
"extra":{
"magento-root-dir":"./"
}
However, what I haven't been able to figure out with the existing documentation is what command do I need to run in order to copy or symlink the files in ./vendor
into my Magento root?
The tutorials I've found say use the magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer project on GitHub — but this project's README seems more focused on creating your own packages than on basic usage.
Best Answer
The short version: If everything's configured correctly, you don't need to do anything. The way packages.firegento.com works is by taking advantage of a Composer custom installer plugin. This custom installer plugin handles symlinking or copying the files (depending on the value of
magento-deploystrategy
in theextra
configuration section)However, somewhere in your composer
require
configuration, you need to include themagento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer
package.This package installs the composer plugin, which in turn enables the custom installation functionality. This is why every composer plugin should have this package in its
require
list.