Adjusted vendor dirs of example applications

- update composer json to chosse right path
- set vendorPath in application config if not default

apps/advanced/backstage/config/main.php

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ $params = array_merge(
 return array(
 	'id' => 'change-me',
 	'basePath' => dirname(__DIR__),
+	'vendorPath' => dirname(dirname(__DIR__)) . '/vendor',
 	'preload' => array('log'),
 	'controllerNamespace' => 'backstage\controllers',
 	'modules' => array(

apps/advanced/console/config/main.php

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ $params = array_merge(
 return array(
 	'id' => 'change-me',
 	'basePath' => dirname(__DIR__),
+	'vendorPath' => dirname(dirname(__DIR__)) . '/vendor',
 	'preload' => array('log'),
 	'controllerNamespace' => 'console\controllers',
 	'modules' => array(

apps/advanced/frontend/config/main.php

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ $params = array_merge(
 return array(
 	'id' => 'change-me',
 	'basePath' => dirname(__DIR__),
+	'vendorPath' => dirname(dirname(__DIR__)) . '/vendor',
 	'preload' => array('log'),
 	'controllerNamespace' => 'frontend\controllers',
 	'modules' => array(

apps/benchmark/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+composer.lock

apps/benchmark/composer.json

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 		"irc": "irc://irc.freenode.net/yii",
 		"source": "https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2"
 	},
+    "config": {
+      "vendor-dir": "protected/vendor"
+    },
 	"minimum-stability": "dev",
 	"require": {
 		"php": ">=5.3.0",

framework/yii/base/Application.php

@@ -207,7 +207,8 @@ class Application extends Module
 
 	/**
 	 * Returns the directory that stores vendor files.
-	 * @return string the directory that stores vendor files. Defaults to 'protected/vendor'.
+	 * @return string the directory that stores vendor files.
+	 * Defaults to 'vendor' directory under applications [[basePath]].
 	 */
 	public function getVendorPath()
 	{