README

This project template should provide a kickstart for managing your site dependencies with Composer.

If you want to know how to use it as replacement for Drush Make visit the Documentation on drupal.org.

Usage

First you need to install Composer and Git.

Note: The instructions below refer to the global composer installation. You might need to replace composer with php composer.phar (or similar) for your setup.

After that you can create the project:

composer create-project --stability dev front/university-project university

With composer require ... you can download new dependencies to your installation.

cd university
composer require drupal/devel:1.*

The composer create-project command passes ownership of all files to the project that is created. You should create a new git repository, and commit all files not excluded by the .gitignore file.

What does the template do?

When installing the given composer.json some tasks are taken care of:

Drupal will be installed in the docroot-directory.
Autoloader is implemented to use the generated composer autoloader in vendor/autoload.php, instead of the one provided by Drupal (docroot/vendor/autoload.php).
Modules (packages of type drupal-module) will be placed in docroot/modules/contrib/
Theme (packages of type drupal-theme) will be placed in docroot/themes/contrib/
Profiles (packages of type drupal-profile) will be placed in docroot/profiles/contrib/
Downloads Drupal scaffold files such as index.php, or .htaccess
Creates sites/default/files-directory.
Latest version of drush is installed locally for use at bin/drush.
Latest version of DrupalConsole is installed locally for use at bin/drupal.

Installing University

Create project will install University into the docroot direcrory inside of university. You can now install University as you would with any Drupal 8 site. See: Drupal installation guide.

Updating University

This project will attempt to keep all of your University and Drupal Core files up-to-date; the project drupal-composer/drupal-scaffold is used to ensure that your scaffold files are updated every time drupal/core is updated. If you customize any of the "scaffolding" files (commonly .htaccess), you may need to merge conflicts if any of your modfied files are updated in a new release of Drupal core.

Follow the steps below to update your University files.

Run composer update front/university
Run git diff to determine if any of the scaffolding files have changed. Review the files for any changes and restore any customizations to .htaccess or robots.txt.
Commit everything all together in a single commit, so docroot will remain in sync with the core when checking out branches or running git bisect.
In the event that there are non-trivial conflicts in step 2, you may wish to perform these steps on a branch, and use git merge to combine the updated core files with your customized files. This facilitates the use of a three-way merge tool such as kdiff3. This setup is not necessary if your changes are simple; keeping all of your modifications at the beginning or end of the file is a good strategy to keep merges easy.

FAQ

Should I commit the contrib modules I download

Composer recommends no. They provide argumentation against but also workrounds if a project decides to do it anyway.

How can I apply patches to downloaded modules?

If you need to apply patches (depending on the project being modified, a pull request is often a better solution), you can do so with the composer-patches plugin.

To add a patch to drupal module foobar insert the patches section in the extra section of composer.json:

"extra": {
    "patches": {
        "drupal/foobar": {
            "Patch description": "URL to patch"
        }
    }
}

How can I prevent downloading modules from University, that I do not need?

To prevent downloading a module, that University provides but that you do not need, add a replace block to your composer.json:

"replace": {
    "drupal/features": "*"
}

This example prevents any version of the feature module to be downloaded.

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