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contao-components/installer
===========================

Contao components installer

1.4.1(5y ago)61.6M↓38.8%20LGPL-3.0-or-laterPHPPHP >=5.6

Since Nov 6Pushed 3y ago3 watchersCompare

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READMEChangelogDependencies (3)Versions (27)Used By (20)

Contao components installer
===========================

[](#contao-components-installer)

[![](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/acc70d21bd4bb6968be9471d0a3c0c810df86841ec37d2bd9451570fd8ff3cab/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f762f636f6e74616f2d636f6d706f6e656e74732f696e7374616c6c65722e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://packagist.org/packages/contao-components/installer)[![](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/e7c2efb918336928c17106d7b08652a3b5bb08c0b5afae4d5e494c535a047e9b/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f64742f636f6e74616f2d636f6d706f6e656e74732f696e7374616c6c65722e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://packagist.org/packages/contao-components/installer)

Contao is an Open Source PHP Content Management System for people who want a professional website that is easy to maintain. Visit the [project website](https://contao.org)for more information.

About
-----

[](#about)

This custom Composer installer handles packages with the type attribute set to "contao-component" and installs them into a separate directory.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

To create a [Contao component](https://github.com/contao-components), add the following to your `composer.json`:

```
{
    "name": "vendor/name",
    "type": "contao-component",
    "license": "LGPL-3.0-or-later",
    "require": {
        "contao-components/installer": "^1.0"
    }
}
```

Components directory
--------------------

[](#components-directory)

Note that the components will only be installed if you specify an components directory in the `composer.json` file of your project:

```
{
    "extra": {
        "contao-component-dir": "assets"
    }
}
```

###  Health Score

42

—

FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity43

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community27

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity68

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 97.6% of commits — single point of failure

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 ~112 days

Recently: every ~389 days

Total

27

Last Release

1300d ago

PHP version history (4 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.4.0

1.2.6PHP ^5.6|^7.0

1.3.0PHP ^5.6 || ^7.0

1.4.1PHP >=5.6

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

[![leofeyer](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1192057?v=4)](https://github.com/leofeyer "leofeyer (40 commits)")[![fiedsch](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5047601?v=4)](https://github.com/fiedsch "fiedsch (1 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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