Customizing the vendor path

OrdinaryJellyfish

Is it possible to change the vendor path Flarum uses? Currently I'm getting an error while trying to install that vendor/composer/installed.json doesn't exist because it's trying from the wrong directory, which breaks the entire application.

luceos

OrdinaryJellyfish the vendor path is being created by composer. The only places Flarum loads vendor is in the flarum binary and public/index.php for reading the dependencies. I recommend against renaming this folder at all costs though.

OrdinaryJellyfish

luceos oh, I know. I'm not renaming the folder, it's just in a different location. Still vendor...however, Flarum is trying to load vendor/composer/installed.json to get available extensions from the wrong directory.

clarkwinkelmann

OrdinaryJellyfish Flarum is trying to load vendor/composer/installed.json to get available extensions from the wrong directory

Oh yeah I think this one is hard coded.

Can't you just symlink the vendor folder if you really need to place it elsewhere ?

OrdinaryJellyfish

clarkwinkelmann I could do that for now. Possibly the Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths method could accept a vendor path argument in the future? It seems Flarum already accepts custom vendor paths from looking at the source, changing that variable just isn't so easy.

luceos

OrdinaryJellyfish maybe we need an issue for that then, especially when core already knows about the location of vendor..

clarkwinkelmann

OrdinaryJellyfish you are completely correct, I just checked in the source and on my dev install.

Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths() already accepts an optional vendor key. I think it does exactly what you need.

Just edit that array in <root>/public/index.php and <root>/flarum, like this:

require '../not-vendor/autoload.php';

$server = new Flarum\Http\Server(
    Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
        'base' => __DIR__.'/..',
        'public' => __DIR__.'/../public',
        'storage' => __DIR__.'/../storage',
        'vendor' => __DIR__.'/../not-vendor'
    ])
);

OrdinaryJellyfish

clarkwinkelmann oh, awesome! Didn't see that part. Thank you so much.