Composer package for ProcessWire CMS installation

Using this package you can easily install ProcessWire to your project. This works differenty from the official processwire/processwire composer package, where the official package just places the PW copy into vendor/processwire/processwire, this installs the PW directly to the project's root (thanks to uiii/pw-core).

Why all this?

It is not easy (if event possible) to run PW instance with wire and site folders in different locations. So if the PW is under vendor directory your site folder must too.

This package solves this by changing the PW install location to project's root next to your site folder.

Usage

Just set the required PW version as composer dependency:

composer require uiii/processwire:<version>

Completely new installation

If you haven't set up the PW yet (site/assets/installed.php doesn't exist), all files required for initial PW setup will be installed. Afterwards continue the setup in the browser.

Already existing site folder

If you have set up PW before and you have your site folder already present, only the files required for running the site will be installed (wire, index.php, .htaccess).

Old index.php and .htaccess will be backuped with .bak extension

Now when you deploy your site, install all your dependencies (PW included) with composer install.

NOTE: It is reasonable to config your VCS to ignore the wire directory.

Updating existing installation

Updating is easy, just require new version: composer require uiii/processwire:<new-version>

Set different install path

By default PW is installed in the root directory (next to the composer.json file). You change the install path by setting the pw-install-path extra parameter in composer.json:

"extra": {
	"pw-install-path": "path/to/install"
}