The Zend Framework blog has a new post sharing a method for managing your application's configurations with the help of the zend-config-aggregator package, a product of work on the Zend Expressive framework.

With the rise of PHP middleware, many developers are creating custom application architectures, and running into an issue many frameworks already solve: how to allow runtime configuration of the application.

configuration is often necessary, even in custom applications. [...] Faced with this reality, you then have a new problem: how can you configure your application, as well as aggregate configuration from other sources?

As part of the Expressive initiative, we now offer a standalone solution for you: zend-config-aggregator

The post walks you through the installation of the package and introduces some of the included configuration providers. The tutorial then shows how to put the component to use, aggregating several different kinds of configuration files. It also shows how to use caching on the results and auto-enabling third party and custom providers.