[CGeorge]

I find RAILS environment system very useful, and I have been using my own implementation on Yii:

• I have a base configuration for all the environments.
• Then, I merge it with the specific environment configuration.
• Finally, I merge it with the local configuration.

So this is my base config folder for all my projects:

config/
   base.php
   local.php
   development.php
   production.php
   console.php

I would like to see Yii providing an easy way of doing this without the dirty CMap::mergeArray() calls inside the config files. This feature should not be enabled by default because it is less flexible.

I usually define the environment on the index.php / yiic.php

Optionally: For very complex applications I use folder-based configurations with a bootstrap script that merges all the files of the folder in a single array, saving it in the cache.

[samdark]

CGeorge
I'm developing this way as well but using CMap::mergeArray() doesn't look dirty to me.

[CGeorge]

samdark, on 07 October 2011 - 09:55 AM, said:

CGeorge
I'm developing this way as well but using CMap::mergeArray() doesn't look dirty to me.

Ok
Then I propose adding this environment configuration by default to the advanced config I proposed here

[schmunk]

Another thing I often stumbled upon with configurations is the problem that I have to set values, which rely on a Yii method, eg. Yii::app()->baseUrl, this is often needed for extensions (e.g. CSS or JavaScript includes). If I do not publish them via assetManager.

'extensionXY' => array(
  'scriptUrl' => Yii::app()->baseUrl.'/path/to/javascript.js'
)

[CGeorge]

schmunk, on 07 November 2011 - 07:18 AM, said:

Another thing I often stumbled upon with configurations is the problem that I have to set values, which rely on a Yii method, eg. Yii::app()->baseUrl, this is often needed for extensions (e.g. CSS or JavaScript includes). If I do not publish them via assetManager.

'extensionXY' => array(
  'scriptUrl' => Yii::app()->baseUrl.'/path/to/javascript.js'
)

I think that application properties should be used after the config definition. For example:

#config/main.php
'extensionXY' => array(
    'scriptUrl' => 'path/to/javascript.js'
)

#extensions/XY.php
public function init() {
    if($this->scriptUrl is a relative path)
     	$this->scriptUrl = Yii::app()->baseUrl.'/'.$this->scriptUrl;
        ...
    }

[Gustavo]

I'm also using CMap to merge configs and is fine.

@schmunk , in 2.0, aliases will be more flexible allowing this kinda of usage

[sidewinder]

I'm using this extension. It does a fantastic job managing my configuration files.

[schmunk]

Gustavo, on 08 November 2011 - 04:54 AM, said:

@schmunk , in 2.0, aliases will be more flexible allowing this kinda of usage

Also for URLs not only local paths?