Yii native support

[ujovlado]

Hi, can you please describe how Yii is natively supported?

I know it had support in 1.0.3 version, but this is not true with next version.

When I browse through issues https://github.com/composer/installers/issues/68, https://github.com/composer/installers/pull/71 and https://github.com/composer/installers/pull/75 i see it was removed finally.

So native suport means I have to manage it own way, right?

Thanks!

[shama]

Take a look at yiisoft/yii#2313. I believe you now configure the vendor-dir:

{
  "config": {
    "vendor-dir": "protected/extensions"
  }
}

http://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#config

/cc @schmunk42

[schmunk42]

You can install your extensions into protected/extensions if you want to, but you simply can configure Yii extensions and modules to run from anywhere, also from vendor

See http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/392/creating-yii-applications-with-composer/ and http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/457/fixing-extensions-without-modifying-their-code for some examples.

Both articles are based on my implementation available from https://github.com/phundament/app But there's also http://yiinitializr.2amigos.us which is a related project.

The thing you've to do mostly to work around the glitches .

[ujovlado]

Thanks for response, guys! But I think this is not native support. :)

@shama set the vendor-dir to protected/extensions seems like good idea only when I'll be using Yii extensions only and no other libraries.

@schmunk42 thx for articles, I'll try solution with aliases.

But, is there any way how to use composer/installer only for mapping? Something like:

{
    "extra": {
        "installer-paths": {
            "my/custom/path": ["vendor/package"]
        }
    }
}

I only want to say that vendor/package's content will be extracted to my/custom/path

Thank you

[schmunk42]

set the vendor-dir to protected/extensions seems like good idea only when I'll be using Yii extensions only and no other libraries.

And you shouldn't mix composer packages with your application repo, usually. Don't know about the mapping.

[ujovlado]

I think those aliases will be enough. Thx