This is a rough draft at best but I will try to explain as best as I can. This is a tutorial for people like me who are on a shared host and can't seem to install extensions through composer due to PHP resource limits set by the host.
Pre-requisites:
-Must have both SSH/FTP access
Example extension package:
-flagrow/flarum-ext-image-upload
Directions
1) Go to flarum root directory through FTP (whichever folder you installed Flarum on, most likely your url folder: home/user_name/url)
2) Create a new folder titled: “workbench”
3) Download repository folder from github (go to github of extension > Click Clone or download > Download ZIP)
4) Unzip folder and drop it into the workbench folder
5) Go to composer.json in the flarum root
6) Add the following lines after the require column
Example:
"require": {
"flarum/core": "^0.1.0",
"flarum/flarum-ext-akismet": "^0.1.0",
"flarum/flarum-ext-approval": "^0.1.0",
},
"repositories": [
{
"type": "path",
"url": "workbench/*/"
}
],
7) Add these the name of your extension followed by @dev after "franzl/studio": "^0.10.0"
Example:
"require-dev": {
"franzl/studio": "^0.10.0"
"flagrow/flarum-ext-image-upload": "@dev"
}
8) Your composer.json folder should know look like this
{
"name": "flarum/flarum",
"description": "Delightfully simple forum software.",
"type": "project",
"keywords": ["forum", "discussion"],
"homepage": "http://flarum.org",
"license": "MIT",
"authors": [
{
"name": "Toby Zerner",
"email": "toby.zerner@gmail.com"
},
{
"name": "Franz Liedke",
"email": "franz@develophp.org"
}
],
"support": {
"issues": "https://github.com/flarum/core/issues",
"source": "https://github.com/flarum/flarum",
"docs": "http://flarum.org/docs"
},
"require": {
"flarum/core": "^0.1.0",
"flarum/flarum-ext-akismet": "^0.1.0",
"flarum/flarum-ext-approval": "^0.1.0",
},
"repositories": [
{
"type": "path",
"url": "workbench/*/"
}
],
"require-dev": {
"franzl/studio": "^0.10.0"
"flagrow/flarum-ext-image-upload": "@dev"
}
config": {
"preferred-install": "dist"
},
"minimum-stability": "beta",
"prefer-stable": true
}
9) Access your server through ssh
10) Go to the flarum root directory
11) Use the composer command update
12) Your extension should now be installed!
13) Verify by going into the administration page of your website > extension > new extension button
