Phpdocumentor: exception with custom composer vendor-dir in 2.7

[Schlaefer]

E.g. in project/composer.json

    "config": {
        "vendor-dir": "lib/vendor"
    },

to install files into project/lib/vendor throws:

phpDocumentor expected to find an autoloader at "<..>/project/lib/vendor/phpdocumentor/phpdocumentor/src/phpDocumentor/../../vendor/autoload.php" but it was not there. Usually this is because the "composer install" command has not been ran yet. If this is not the case, please open an issue at http://github.com/phpDocumentor/phpDocumentor2 detailing what installation method you used, which path is mentioned in this error message and any other relevant information.

It seems that phpDocumentor\Bootstrap::findVendorPath expects composer.json and vendor-folder always to be in the in the same directory, which is not necessarily the case.

[mvriel]

Hi @Schlaefer,

Thanks for reporting this. Support for custom vendor folders is new for phpDocumentor so we have to get some issues fixed.

[mvriel]

@Schlaefer this issue is resolved in PR #1420 by @jaapio; starting with phpDocumentor 2.8.0 will the current working directory be checked for a composer.json when all other checks fail and the vendor directory is extracted from it

[mrmarkfrench]

This issue remains in v2.8.5. Is there any plan to resolve this? It would appear that after the revert to correct #1451, this issue was left closed and no further activity has been recorded.

[simonhudsoncarter]

Hi there, just wondering if there's been any update to this issue?

I'm still getting this error using v2.9.0:
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'RuntimeException' with message 'phpDocumentor expected to find an autoloader at ...

We have a custom location for the vendor dir in the config block of our composer.json file:

"config": {
        "vendor-dir": "app/vendor"
}