Config providers

The ConfigAggregator works by aggregating "config providers" passed to its constructor. Each provider should be a callable, returning a configuration array (or a PHP generator) to be merged.

$aggregator = new ConfigAggregator([
    function () {
        return ['foo' => 'bar'];
    },
    new PhpFileProvider('*.global.php'),
]);
var_dump($aggregator->getMergedConfig());

If the provider is a class name, the aggregator automatically instantiates it before invoking it; as such, any class name you use as a config provider must also define __invoke(), and that method must return an array.

This can be used to mimic the Laminas module system: you can specify a list of config providers from different packages, and aggregated configuration will be available to your application.

As a library owner, you can distribute your own configuration providers that provide default values for use with your library.

As an example:

class ApplicationConfig
{
    public function __invoke()
    {
        return ['foo' => 'bar'];
    }
}

$aggregator = new ConfigAggregator([
    ApplicationConfig::class,
    new PhpFileProvider('*.global.php'),
]);
var_dump($aggregator->getMergedConfig());

Output from both examples will be the same:

array(4) {
  'foo' =>
  string(3) "bar"
  'db' =>
  array(1) {
    'dsn' =>
    string(9) "mysql:..."
  }
  'cache_storage' =>
  string(5) "redis"
  'redis' =>
  array(0) {
  }
}

Generators

Config providers can be written as generators. This way, a single callable can provide multiple configurations:

use Laminas\ConfigAggregator\ConfigAggregator;
use Laminas\Stdlib\Glob;

$aggregator = new ConfigAggregator([
    function () {
        foreach (Glob::glob('data/*.global.php', Glob::GLOB_BRACE) as $file) {
            yield include $file;
        }
    },
]);
var_dump($aggregator->getMergedConfig());

The PhpFileProvider is implemented as a generator.

Available config providers

PhpFileProvider

Loads configuration from PHP files returning arrays, such as this one:

return [
    'db' => [
        'dsn' => 'mysql:...',
    ],
];

Wildcards are supported:

use Laminas\ConfigAggregator\ConfigAggregator;
use Laminas\ConfigAggregator\PhpFileProvider;

$aggregator = new ConfigAggregator(
    [
        new PhpFileProvider('config/*.global.php'),
    ]
);

The example above will merge all matching files from the config/ directory. If you have files such as app.global.php or database.global.php in that directory, they will be loaded using this above lines of code.

The provider also supports globbing. Globbing defaults to PHP's glob() function. However, if Laminas\Stdlib\Glob is available, it will use that to allow for cross-platform glob patterns, including brace notation: 'config/autoload/{{,*.}global,{,*.}local}.php'. Install laminas/laminas-stdlib to utilize this feature.

LaminasConfigProvider

Sometimes using plain PHP files may be not enough; you may want to build your configuration from multiple files of different formats, such as INI, JSON, YAML, or XML. laminas-config-aggregator allows you to do so via its LaminasConfigProvider. This feature requires first installing laminas-config:

$ composer require laminas/laminas-config

Once installed, you may use as many LaminasConfigProvider instances as you need:

use Laminas\ConfigAggregator\ConfigAggregator;
use Laminas\ConfigAggregator\LaminasConfigProvider;

$aggregator = new ConfigAggregator(
    [
        new LaminasConfigProvider('*.global.json'),
        new LaminasConfigProvider('database.local.ini'),
    ]
);

These could even be combined into a single glob statement:

$aggregator = new ConfigAggregator(
    [
        new LaminasConfigProvider('*.global.json,database.local.ini'),
    ]
);

LaminasConfigProvider accepts wildcards and globs, and autodetects the config type based on file extension.

Some config readers (in particular, YAML) may need additional dependencies; please refer to the laminas-config manual for more details.

LaminasModuleProvider

To provide configuration using Module classes created for laminas/laminas-mvc applications, you can use the LaminasModuleProvider, via the package laminas/laminas-config-aggregator-modulemanager. This provider introspects the module class for its Module::getConfig() method as well as its Module::getServiceConfig() method (declared via the ServiceProviderInterface).

To use the extension, first install its package:

$ composer require laminas/laminas-config-aggregator-modulemanager

Once installed, you may use as many LaminasModuleProvider instances as you need:

use Laminas\ConfigAggregator\ConfigAggregator;
use Laminas\ConfigAggregatorModuleManager\LaminasModuleProvider;
use ACME;

$aggregator = new ConfigAggregator([
    new LaminasModuleProvider(new ACME\Module()),
]);

LaminasModuleProvider accepts any object which represents a laminas-mvc module. For more details, please refer to the laminas-config-aggregator-modulemanager manual.