seppzzz/silverstripe-symlinktask

Provides a Silverstripe BuildTask for creating symlinks to exposed resources defined in composer.json files. Useful for environments where command-line access is restricted or unavailable.

dev-main 2025-07-08 10:56 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.1
• silverstripe/login-forms: ^6.0
• silverstripe/recipe-cms: ^6.0
• silverstripe/recipe-plugin: ^2.1

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^9.5

BSD-3-Clause

• seppzzz

• cms
• silverstripe
• symlinks
• seppzzz
• build-task

README

Provides a Silverstripe BuildTask for creating symlinks to exposed resources defined in composer.json files. This task replicates the functionality of the composer vendor-expose command, making it useful for environments where command-line access is restricted or unavailable.

Compatibility

SilverStripe version	Branch
4.x / 5.x	silverstripe-4-5
6.x	main

Requirements

SilverStripe ^6 PHP 8.2 or higher

Installation

You can install the module via Composer:

composer require seppzzz/silverstripe-symlinktask

Alternatively, you can download the .zip file from GitHub, extract it, rename the extracted folder to silverstripe-symlinktask, and copy it to your vendor/seppzzz/ directory.

After installation, run the following command to rebuild your SilverStripe project:

dev/build

Documentation

To create the symlinks, navigate to:

yoursite.com/dev/tasks/CreateSymlinks