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rarst/locate-vendor
===================

Experimental helper for vendor directory location in Composer

1.0.1(12y ago)51482MITPHPPHP >=5.3

Since Jul 3Pushed 11y ago2 watchersCompare

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Locate Vendor — directory in Composer
=====================================

[](#locate-vendor--directory-in-composer)

Locate Vendor determines file system location of packages in Composer environment.

Installation
============

[](#installation)

Require in your `composer.json`

```
{
	"require" : {
		"rarst/locate-vendor" : "~1.0"
	}
}
```

or

```
composer require rarst/locate-vendor:~1.0 --update-no-dev
```

Methods
=======

[](#methods)

`get_vendor_path()`
-------------------

[](#get_vendor_path)

Example code:

```
$vendor_path  = \Rarst\Composer\Locate_Vendor::get_vendor_path();
```

`get_package_path()`
--------------------

[](#get_package_path)

Example code:

```
$package_path = \Rarst\Composer\Locate_Vendor::get_package_path( 'twbs/bootstrap' );
```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~15 days

Total

2

Last Release

4679d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/689ddc4f33541ac4a001d247e560f8805d219a95e7e42a16e0d22b9409f385cb?d=identicon)[Rarst](/maintainers/Rarst)

---

Top Contributors

[![Rarst](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/737584?v=4)](https://github.com/Rarst "Rarst (8 commits)")

---

Tags

composercomposer

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