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[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility) 4. / 5. rtens/fido ActiveComposer-plugin[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility) rtens/fido ========== Asset fetcher for PHP v1.0(11y ago)13MITPHPPHP >=5.3 Since Oct 18Pushed 11y ago1 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/rtens/fido)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/rtens/fido)[ Docs](http://github.com/watoki/fido)[ RSS](/packages/rtens-fido/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 3w ago READMEChangelog (1)Dependencies (3)Versions (2)Used By (0) \#fido [![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/7d80f31e013e4a530c23f97138b088dbffb69381277a3e792852537aabc27ee9/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f7274656e732f6669646f2e706e673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/rtens/fido) A simple [composer](https://getcomposer.org) plugin that simplifies installing packages without dependency management support (e.g. assets from URLs or git repositories). Installation ------------ [](#installation) Because of [composer](https://getcomposer.org)'s plugin system, you need to install *fido* globally ``` composer global require "rtens/fido:~1.0" ``` (there is a [pull request](https://github.com/composer/composer/pull/3082) to fix that) Usage ----- [](#usage) The requirement definitions go into the `extra` object using the ke `fido-fetch`. Here is an example with two packages. ``` "extra": { "fido-fetch": { "base-dir": "web/assets/vendor", // defaults to "assets/vendor" "jquery": { "source": "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.js", "type": "file", // optional, inferred from source "target": "jquery.js" // Optional, defaults to file name }, "phantom.js runner": { "source": "https://github.com/jonkemp/qunit-phantomjs-runner.git", "type": "git", // optional, inferred from source "target": "phantomjs-runner", // Optional, defaults to repository name "reference": "v1.2.0" // optional, defaults to "*" } } } ``` This can be shortened in several steps. First, by leaving out the optional definitions. ``` "extra": { "fido-fetch": { "jquery": { "source": "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.js", }, "phantom.js runner": { "source": "https://github.com/jonkemp/qunit-phantomjs-runner.git", } } } ``` To shorten it even more, the value of `source` can be used as package names. ``` "extra": { "fido-fetch": { "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.js": {}, "https://github.com/jonkemp/qunit-phantomjs-runner.git": {} } } ``` Finally, these definitions can also be put into the `require` object (including versions for git repositories) by prefixing them with `fido-fetch:`. ``` "require": { "fido-fetch:https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.js": "*", "fido-fetch:https://github.com/jonkemp/qunit-phantomjs-runner.git": "v1.2.0" } ``` Dev Mode -------- [](#dev-mode) You can also specify packages for dev-mode only using the `fetch-fido-dev` and `require-dev` objects. Documentation ------------- [](#documentation) For a complete documentation, check out *fido*'s [executable documentation](http://dox.rtens.org/projects/rtens-fido) But.. why? ---------- [](#but-why) Convenience, mostly. There are of course several ways to get [bootstrap](http://getbootstrap.com/), [jquery](http://jquery.com/) and their likes into your project without bundling them with it. You could use [bower](http://bower.io/) or [npm](http://nodejs.org/) for example or, if you don't like javascript, you can get the the excellent [bower/npm composer plugin](https://github.com/francoispluchino/composer-asset-plugin). But some packages, like the [qunit-phantomjs-runner](https://github.com/jonkemp/qunit-phantomjs-runner), don't support *any* dependency management system. For these cases exists composer's [`package` type repository](https://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#package-2) (thanks Igor for [pointing that out](https://twitter.com/igorwhiletrue/status/522406046930071552)). Now if you would like to have these packages in another directory than `vendor`, you can either symlink to them or use the [composer-custom-directory-installer](https://github.com/mnsami/composer-custom-directory-installer) plugin which lets you decide where certain packages should be installed. This is how the `composer.json` looks like with if you would require [bootstrap](http://getbootstrap.com/) and the [qunit-phantomjs-runner](https://github.com/jonkemp/qunit-phantomjs-runner) with this approach: ``` { "require": { "mnsami/composer-custom-directory-installer": "1.0.*", "jquery":"2.1.1", "jonkemp/qunit-phantomjs-runner":"1.1.0" }, "extra": { "installer-paths":{ "web/assets/jquery/jquery.js": ["jquery"], "web/assets/phantomjs-runner": ["jonkemp/qunit-phantomjs-runner"] } }, "repositories": [ { "type": "package", "package": { "name": "jquery", "version": "2.1.1", "dist": { "url": "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.js", "type": "file" } } }, { "type": "package", "package": { "name": "jonkemp/qunit-phantomjs-runner", "version": "1.1.0", "source": { "url": "https://github.com/jonkemp/qunit-phantomjs-runner.git", "type": "git", "reference": "tags/v1.1.0" } } } ], "minimum-stability": "dev" } ``` And this is actually (more or less) what *fido* compiles to, simply with a shorter, simpler syntax. ### Health Score 25 — LowBetter than 35% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity5 Limited adoption so far Community7 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity58 Maturing project, gaining track record Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 100% 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 Unknown Total 1 Last Release 4276d ago ### Community Maintainers ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e687108526c164e4ad1c49b8228514541bd90d43ef70665a087d00e34a1f7559?d=identicon)[rtens](/maintainers/rtens) --- Top Contributors [![rtens](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1468866?v=4)](https://github.com/rtens "rtens (46 commits)") --- Tags composerassetwatoki ### Embed Badge ![Health badge](/badges/rtens-fido/health.svg) ``` [![Health](https://phpackages.com/badges/rtens-fido/health.svg)](https://phpackages.com/packages/rtens-fido) ``` ### Alternatives [symfony/runtime Enables decoupling PHP applications from global state 74798.8M1.0k](/packages/symfony-runtime)[ergebnis/composer-normalize Provides a composer plugin for normalizing composer.json. 1.1k41.4M2.8k](/packages/ergebnis-composer-normalize)[fxp/composer-asset-plugin NPM/Bower Dependency Manager for Composer 9434.8M41](/packages/fxp-composer-asset-plugin)[automattic/jetpack-autoloader Creates a custom autoloader for a plugin or theme. 576.1M124](/packages/automattic-jetpack-autoloader)[drupal/core-composer-scaffold A flexible Composer project scaffold builder. 5344.1M564](/packages/drupal-core-composer-scaffold)[mnsami/composer-custom-directory-installer A composer plugin, to help install packages of different types in custom paths. 1465.4M62](/packages/mnsami-composer-custom-directory-installer) PHPackages © 2026 [Directory](/)[Categories](/categories)[Trending](/trending)[Changelog](/changelog)[Analyze](/analyze)