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Recipe for managing packages from custom Composer repositories with authentication.

Configuration ​

Repository URL ​

  • Label: Repository URL
  • Required: Yes
  • Type: URL
  • Placeholder: https://example.com/packages.json
  • Helper Text: The URL of the Composer repository. It should be a URL that returns a valid composer.json file.

Package ​

  • Label: Package
  • Required: Yes
  • Type: Select (searchable)
  • Note: Dynamically populated based on the repository URL. Shows all available packages from the repository.

Basic Auth Username ​

  • Required: Yes
  • Type: Secret
  • Note: Used for HTTP Basic Authentication when accessing the repository.

Basic Auth Password ​

  • Required: Yes
  • Type: Secret
  • Note: Used for HTTP Basic Authentication when accessing the repository.

Features ​

  • Automatically fetches available packages from the repository
  • Supports HTTP Basic Authentication for private repositories
  • Compatible with standard Composer repository format

How to Obtain License Information ​

You'll need:

  1. The URL to your Composer repository's packages.json file
  2. HTTP Basic Authentication credentials (username and password) if your repository is private
  3. The package name you want to manage

Common use cases:

  • Private Satis repositories
  • Commercial plugin repositories that use Composer
  • Custom package repositories

Notes ​

  • The repository URL will automatically append /packages.json if not present
  • Uses standard Composer package format
  • Caches repository responses to improve performance
  • Downloads packages using the dist.url from the package metadata
  • User agent: Composer/2.8.0