Though @Antonio Carlos Ribeiro's answer is really nice, I had problem with installing custom packages locally(which is also stated in the last part of his answer)
Let's assume this is the directory structure of the package we are trying to install:
D:/test_pack
src/
composer.json
If you do not want to upload your custom package (that most likely you have developed, yourself) to online repositories you can use one of the following two methods:
Method I
(You have to specify version for your package, otherwise you'll get this error: The requested package could not be found in any version, there may be a typo in the package name.)
1) In composer.json, Add version to your package. your package's json should look something like this:
{
"name": "gandalf/test_pack",//This is your package's name
"description": "some desc",
"version": "1.0.0",//This is the version that you have to specify
"authors": [
{
"name": "gandalf the grey",
"email": "[email protected]"
}
],
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"require": {
"laravel/framework": "~5.4"
},
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"Gandalf\\BotPack\\": "src/"
}
} }
2) zip your package(let's assume the zip file is in D:/test_pack/test_packa.zip)
3) In laravel's composer.json add your package name (in our case gandalf/test_pack into require part of json) and add the repository array to the composer.json file and in that array specify the directory in which your package's zip file exists(in our case D:/test_pack) . like this
{
...,
"require": {//adding our package name to laravel's composer.json
...,
"gandalf/test_pack": "*"//package's name
},
...,
"repositories": [
{
"type": "artifact",
"url": "D:/test_pack"
}
]
}
Method II(My Favorite method, You have to initialize your package directory as git local repository using git init and then git add . and git commit -m "your message")
1) initialize the package directory as git directory and commit all your changes to the local repository
(let's say D:/test_pack is the directory that contains your package(src/ directory and composer.json))
go to D:/test_pack directory and run these commands
git init
git add .
git commit -m "your message for this commit"
2) In your packages composer.json file add minimum-stability
{
"name": "gandalf/test_pack",
"description": "some desc",
"authors": [
{
"name": "gandalf the grey",
"email": "[email protected]"
}
],
"minimum-stability": "dev",//setting minimum-stability
"require": {
//dependencies that your package needs
},
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"Gandalf\\BotPack\\": "src/"
}
}
}
3)In laravel's composer.json file require the "dev-master" of your package
{
...,
"require": {
...,//some dependencies that laravel needs
"gandalf/test_pack": "dev-master"//requiring dev-master from repository
},
"repositories": [
{
"type": "git",
"url": "D:/test_pack"//path of the local repository directory which contains your package
}
]
}
vendorfolder. Your custom package should formated as workbench – Inhaler