Using this package you can easily install ProcessWire to your project. This works differenty from the official processwire/processwire composer package, where the official package just places the PW copy into vendor/processwire/processwire, this installs the PW directly to the project's root (thanks to uiii/pw-core).

It is not easy (if event possible) to run PW instance with wire and site folders in different locations. So if the PW is under vendor directory your site folder must too.

This package solves this by changing the PW install location to project's root next to your site folder.

Just set the required PW version as composer dependency:

composer require uiii/processwire:<version>

If you haven't set up the PW yet (site/assets/installed.php doesn't exist), all files required for initial PW setup will be installed. Afterwards continue the setup in the browser.

If you have set up PW before and you have your site folder already, only the files required for running the site will be installed (wire, index.php, .htaccess).

Old index.php and .htaccess will be backuped with .bak extension

NOTE: It is reasonable to config your VCS to ignore the wire directory.

Now when you deploy your site, you would install all your dependencies (PW included) with composer install.

Updating is easy, just require new version: composer require uiii/processwire:<new-version>