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typisttech/imposter
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Wrapping all composer vendor packages inside your own namespace. Intended for WordPress plugins.

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Imposter
========

[](#imposter)

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 **Wrapping all composer vendor packages inside your own namespace. Intended for WordPress plugins.**

 Built with ♥ by [Typist Tech](https://www.typist.tech/)

---

**Imposter** is an open source project and completely free to use.

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---

Wrapping all composer vendor packages inside your own namespace. Intended for WordPress plugins.

Why?
----

[](#why)

Because of the lack of dependency management in WordPress, if two plugins bundled conflicting versions of the same package, hard-to-reproduce bugs arise. Monkey patching composer vendor packages, wrapping them inside your own namespace is a less-than-ideal solution to avoid such conflicts.

See:

- [A Narrative of Using Composer in a WordPress Plugin](https://wptavern.com/a-narrative-of-using-composer-in-a-wordpress-plugin)
- [A Warning About Using Composer With WordPress](https://wppusher.com/blog/a-warning-about-using-composer-with-wordpress/)
- [Plugin Dependencies (Yet Another Plugin Dependencies Ticket)](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22316)

Install
-------

[](#install)

> If you want to hook Imposter into [composer command events](https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/scripts.md#command-events), install [Imposter Plugin](https://github.com/TypistTech/imposter-plugin) instead. See: [How can I integrate Imposter with composer?](#how-can-i-integrate-imposter-with-composer)

Installation should be done via composer, details of how to install composer can be found at .

```
composer require typisttech/imposter
```

Config
------

[](#config)

In your `composer.json`:

```
"extra": {
    "imposter": {
        "namespace": "My\\App\\Vendor",
        "excludes": [
            "dummy/dummy-excluded"
        ]
    }
}
```

### extra.imposter.namespace

[](#extraimposternamespace)

*Required* String

This is the namespace prefix to be added to vendor packages.

### extra.imposter.excludes

[](#extraimposterexcludes)

*Optional* Array of strings

Vendor packages which needs to be excluded from namespace prefixing. All [composer-made packages](https://packagist.org/packages/composer/) are excluded by default. Besides, anything under the `Composer` namespace will be excluded.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

After every `$ composer install` and `$ composer update`:

```