This is a very simple Composer plugin working on the post-install-cmd and post-update-cmd events for copying from a source path to a distination folder.

I created this to avoid copying manualy the bootstrap less files into a temporary folder and overriding the variables.less for generating a custom bootstrap.css file using the less filter from the symfony/assetic-bundle.

1. In your composer.json project's file add the requirements

   {
       "require": {
           "sasedev/composer-plugin-filecopier": ">=1.1.0"
       }
   }

2. In your composer.json project's file add the config in the extra element

   {
       "extra": {
           "filescopier" : {
               "source" : "vendor/twbs/bootstrap/less",
               "destination" : "var/less/bootstrap",
               "debug": "true"
           }
       }
   }

   or

   {
       "extra": {
           "filescopier" : [
               {
                   "source" : "vendor/twbs/bootstrap/less",
                   "destination" : "var/less/bootstrap",
                   "debug": "true"
               }, {
                   "source" : "src/Sasedev/ResBundle/Resources/less/bootstrap/*.less",
                   "destination" : "var/less/bootstrap"
               }, {
                   "source" : "/home/sasedev/Documents/*.pdf",
                   "destination" : "var/test"
               }
           ]
       }
   }

   Note: The destination element must be a folder. if the destination folder does not exists, it is recursively created using mkdir($destination, 0755, true).

   Note: If the destination folder is not an absolute path, the relative path is calculated using the vendorDir path ($project_path = \realpath($this->composer->getConfig()->get('vendor-dir').'/../').'/';)

   Note: The source element is evaluated using the php function \glob($source, GLOB_MARK) and a recursive copy is made for every result of this function into the destination folder

3. Run Composer: php composer.phar update.

PHP 5.5 or above (at least 5.5.9 recommended to avoid potential bugs)

Abdelkadeur Seifeddine Salah - [email protected] - http://sasedev.net

Composer is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details