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luka/magento-core-installer
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Magento Core installation via Composer

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Magento Core Installer
======================

[](#magento-core-installer)

This composer plugin allows to install magento core as downloaded from All you need to do is adding a composer.json to the zip and add a repository (e.g. artifact, satis, etc ...).

Example composer.json for magento core packages
-----------------------------------------------

[](#example-composerjson-for-magento-core-packages)

```
{
    "name" : "magento/core",
    "version": "1.8.1.0",
    "description" : "Magento Core",
    "type" : "magento-core",
    "license" : "OSL-3.0",
    "keywords" : [
        "magento"
    ],
    "require" : {
        "luka/magento-core-installer": "~1"
    }
}
```

Usage for installing the magento instance
-----------------------------------------

[](#usage-for-installing-the-magento-instance)

```
{
    "name" : "acme/my-magento-inst",
    "description" : "My Custom Magento Instance",
    "require" : {
        "magento/core": "1.9.*"
    },
    "extra": {
        "magento-root-dir": "public/",
        "magento-separate-writable": true,
        "magento-writable-dir": "writable/",
        "magento-deploystrategy": "copy"
    }
}
```

Extras
------

[](#extras)

- **magento-root-dir** \[string\]: Magento installation target path (document root)
- **magento-separate-writable** \[bool\]: Should use separate writable folder for var and media directories
- **magento-writable-dir** \[string\]: The directory where to find the var and media directory (symlink target).

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity68

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 66.7% 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 ~129 days

Recently: every ~192 days

Total

7

Last Release

3610d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/848ba9aa6075ea6c57cf36a330d682d33ab21b9b2072a281db05c7160dc38f49?d=identicon)[lukanetconsult](/maintainers/lukanetconsult)

---

Top Contributors

[![quafzi](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/164261?v=4)](https://github.com/quafzi "quafzi (24 commits)")[![tux-rampage](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/558326?v=4)](https://github.com/tux-rampage "tux-rampage (11 commits)")[![buric](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1558492?v=4)](https://github.com/buric "buric (1 commits)")

---

Tags

magentocomposer-installer

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