Let Composer to install plugins to another directory

Question

I have framework wich uses plugins as subdirectories in plugin/ directory. Plugins are git submodules and it works just fine. But some plugins require 3rd party libraries and I want to use Composer ti install them. Also there are dependencies between plugins which could be handled by Composer too.

I tried to use composer, but it will install everything into vendor/ directory, which is wrong because plugins must go into plugin/ directory. There is also core of the framework in core/ and application specific files in app/ directory.

What is the best way to use Composer in this scenario?

possible duplicate of [How to specify Composer install path?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11883374/how-to-specify-composer-install-path) — Pang, Mar 20 '15 at 00:36

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 30 '13 at 23:43

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There should be a way for Composer to decide which package is a plugin and should be placed in the plugins directory. In composer, there is a special type setting which you should use in that case.

Then you can use a custom installer to install the special plugin types in the plugin directory.

answered Dec 30 '13 at 23:43

Wouter J

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Do you have a working example of this, please? There is too many holes in that documentation. – Josef Kufner Dec 30 '13 at 23:56
@JosefKufner the docs give you phpdocumentor as an example, you can look at that – Wouter J Dec 31 '13 at 00:32

Let Composer to install plugins to another directory

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