We’re exploring Zend Framework 2 at work, and one of the things we aren’t exciting about is configuration files full of arrays. We’re more comfortable with ini based configuration files.<\/p>\n
The main configuration file is in config\/application.config.php<\/p>\n
<?php\r\nreturn array(\r\n 'modules' => array(\r\n 'Application',\r\n 'Album'\r\n ),\r\n\r\n 'module_listener_options' => array(\r\n 'module_paths' => array(\r\n '.\/module',\r\n '.\/vendor',\r\n ),\r\n 'config_glob_paths' => array(\r\n 'config\/autoload\/{,*.}{global,local}.php',\r\n ),\r\n ),\r\n ),\r\n);<\/pre>\n<\/div>\nAs a config file it becomes application.config.ini<\/div>\n\nmodules[] = Application\r\nmodules[] = Album\r\nmodules[] = PhlyContact<\/pre>\nmodule_listener_options.module_paths[] = .\/module\r\nmodule_listener_options.module_paths[] = .\/vendor\r\nmodule_listener_options.config_glob_paths[] = config\/autoload\/{,*.}{global,local}.php<\/pre>\nIn my public\/index.php I needed to tell Zend how to read this config file:<\/p>\n
$reader = new Zend\\Config\\Reader\\Ini();\r\n\r\n\/\/ Run the application!<\/span>\r\nZend\\Mvc\\Application::init($reader->fromFile('config\/application.config.ini'))->run();<\/em><\/pre>\nThere are also readers for Xml, Json, and Yaml that all work similarly.<\/p>\n
Autoload Config Files<\/h2>\n
I changed the application.config.ini to search for ini files instead of php files:<\/p>\n
module_listener_options.config_glob_paths[] = config\/autoload\/{,*.}{global,local}.ini<\/pre>\nI didn’t need to do anything with a reader object. Zend must see that they are ini files and passes them to the appropriate reader.<\/p>\n
Module Config Files<\/h2>\n
Finally, I can do the same inside a module. In my Module.php I changed the getConfig() method to:<\/p>\n
public function getConfig() {
\n$reader = new \\Zend\\Config\\ReaderIni();
\nreturn $reader->fromFile(__DIR__ . ‘\/config\/module.config.ini’);
\n}<\/p>\n
Further Reading:<\/h2>\n
Zend Config Reader documentation<\/a><\/p>\nZend Config Factory Documentation<\/a>\u00a0– This has a method for returning the correct reader regardless of what file you pass in.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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