PHP Composer custom installer - php

Question

I'm trying to address this issue now for a long time but still could not figure out what's my mistake.
I've got two repositories I want to combine. The Application and the Framework Core.
// Application
- composer.json
- public/
- CCF/
- core/ <- here the core package should go
- vendor/ <- here it goes instead
Now basically I want to create a composer package that install's into CCF/core/ instead of CCF/vendor/clancats/core/etc..
So I created a custom installer at:
vendor/composer/installers/src/Composer/Installers/ClanCatsFrameworkInstaller.php
class ClanCatsFrameworkInstaller extends BaseInstaller
{
protected $locations = array(
'core' => 'CCF/core/',
'orbit' => 'CCF/orbit/{$name}/',
);
}
The composer.json of the core
{
"name": "clancats/core",
"description": "The ClanCatsFramework Core repository",
"type": "clancatsframework-core",
"license": "MIT",
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3",
"composer/installers": "~1.0"
}
}
composer.json of the application that should implement the core at CCF/core
{
"type": "project",
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3",
"clancats/core": "dev-master"
},
"config": {
"vendor-dir": "CCF/vendor"
},
}
But after all that composer still installs the core package at /vendor/clancats/etc..
So my question is what is my mistake that composer won't install the core package to CCF/core/?
Added composer/installers to the requires.
I created a custom installer which defines the path to the core
Set the type of the core package to my custom one.
Another question that is spinning around my head, is my pattern wrong? I mean did i misunderstand how to use composer?
Github:
framework install repo: https://github.com/ClanCats/Framework
core repo: https://github.com/ClanCats/Core
Thanks for your help guys :)

Answer 1

So for everyone who runs into the same problem:
My mistake was that i didn't require the composer/installers in the main repository.
The composer installers have to be required in both repositories.
So in this case:
{
"type": "project",
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3",
"clancats/core": "dev-master",
"composer/installers": "~1.0"
},
"config": {
"vendor-dir": "CCF/vendor"
},
}
solves the problem.