Functions to build a Composer depencied tree for Laravel (make use of Laravel app_path() to get the path of the composer/installed files

Composer dependencies builder

function buildDependenciesTree() {
	$composer = json_decode((string)(file_get_contents(app_path().'/../composer.json')));
	$installed = json_decode((string)(file_get_contents(app_path().'/../vendor/composer/installed.json')));
	$tree = Array();
	foreach($composer->require as $lib => $version) {
		// skip PHP and other non lib requirements
		if (!is_dir(app_path().'/../vendor/'.$lib))
			continue;
		
		$tree[] = loadDependencies($installed, $lib);
	}
	return $tree;
}

function loadDependencies($installed, $selected) {
	$dependencies = Array();
	foreach($installed as $dependency) {
		if (isset($dependency->name) && $dependency->name==$selected && isset($dependency->require) && count($dependency->require)) {
			$dependencyConf = getDependencyInformations($dependency);
			foreach($dependency->require as $lib => $version) {
				// skip PHP and other non lib requirements
				if (!is_dir(app_path().'/../vendor/'.$lib))
					continue;

				$dependencyConf['require'][] = loadDependencies($installed, $lib);
			}
			$dependencies[] = $dependencyConf;
		}
	}
	return $dependencies;
}

function getDependencyInformations($dependency) {
	return Array(
			'name'=> (isset($dependency->name))?$dependency->name:'',
		'version'=> (isset($dependency->version))?$dependency->version:'',
		'description'=> (isset($dependency->description))?$dependency->description:'',
			'require' => Array(),
		);
}