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cakephp/plugin-installer
========================

A composer installer for CakePHP plugins.

2.0.1(2y ago)3311.9M—0.2%1520MITPHPPHP >=8.1CI passing

Since Aug 29Pushed 2mo ago22 watchersCompare

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CakePHP Plugin Installer
========================

[](#cakephp-plugin-installer)

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A composer installer for installing CakePHP plugins.

This installer ensures your application is aware of CakePHP plugins installed by composer in `vendor/`.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Your CakePHP application should already depend on `cakephp/plugin-installer`, if not in your CakePHP application run:

```
composer require cakephp/plugin-installer:*

```

Your plugins themselves do **not** need to require `cakephp/plugin-installer`. They only need to specify the `type` in their composer config:

```
"type": "cakephp-plugin"
```

Multiple Plugin Paths
---------------------

[](#multiple-plugin-paths)

If your application uses multiple plugin paths. In addition to configuring your application settings you will also need to update your `composer.json` to ensure the generated `cakephp-plugins.php` file is correct:

```
// Define the list of plugin-paths your application uses.
"extra": {
    "plugin-paths": ["plugins", "extra_plugins"]
}

```

Plugin Setup
------------

[](#plugin-setup)

For the installer to work properly ensure that your plugin's composer config file has a proper autoload section. Assuming your plugin's namespace is "MyPlugin" the autoload section would be like:

```
"autoload": {
    "psr-4": {
        "MyPlugin\\": "src/"
    }
}
```

Not strictly necessary for the working of the installer but ideally you would also have an "autoload-dev" section for loading test files:

```
"autoload": {
    "psr-4": {
        "MyPlugin\\": "src/"
    }
},
"autoload-dev": {
    "psr-4": {
        "MyPlugin\\Test\\": "tests/",
        "Cake\\Test\\" : "vendor/cakephp/cakephp/tests/"
    }
}
```

If your top level namespace is a vendor name then your namespace to path mapping would be like:

```
"autoload": {
    "psr-4": {
        "MyVendor\\MyPlugin\\": "src/"
    }
},
"autoload-dev": {
    "psr-4": {
        "MyVendor\\MyPlugin\\Test\\": "tests/",
        "Cake\\Test\\" : "vendor/cakephp/cakephp/tests/"
    }
}
```

Generating Manually
-------------------

[](#generating-manually)

If you need to generate `cakephp-plugins.php` separately, you can simply run the `dumpautoload` command:

```
composer dumpautoload

```

You cannot use `--no-scripts` with `dumpautoload` or `cakephp-plugins.php` will not generate.

If you don't want to re-generate the entire autoload dump, you can run just the scripts:

```
composer run-script post-autoload-dump

```

Please see [composer documentation](https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#dump-autoload-dumpautoload-) for details.

###  Health Score

63

—

FairBetter than 99% of packages

Maintenance58

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity58

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community45

Growing community involvement

Maturity82

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor2

2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~162 days

Recently: every ~296 days

Total

27

Last Release

64d ago

Major Versions

0.0.15 → 1.0.02017-03-21

1.3.1 → 2.0.0-beta12022-12-14

1.x-dev → 2.0.02023-09-06

PHP version history (4 changes)1.3.0-betaPHP ^7.2

1.3.0PHP >=7.2.0

1.3.1PHP >=5.6.0

2.0.0-beta1PHP >=8.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/23666?v=4)[CakePHP](/maintainers/cakephp)[@cakephp](https://github.com/cakephp)

---

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---

Tags

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