A composer plugin, to install differenty types of composer packages in custom directories outside the default composer default installation path which is in the vendor folder.

Installation

Include the composer plugin into your composer.json require section::

  "require":{
    "php": ">=5.3",
    "mnsami/composer-custom-directory-installer": "1.0.*",
    "monolog/monolog": "*"
  }

In the extra section define the custom directory you want to the package to be installed in::

  "extra":{
    "installer-paths":{
      "./monolog/": ["monolog/monolog"]
    }

by adding the installer-paths part, you are telling composer to install the monolog package inside the monolog folder in your root directory.