The Master Zend Framework site has a new tutorial posted helping you simplify the configuration on your Zend Expressive application with the help of ConfigProviders, a handy feature that lets you split up the configuration into logical "chunks" as PHP classes.

Given Zend Framework’s design (and accompanying flexible nature), this [configuration complexity] can easily be the case if we’re not careful. [...] Specifically, we’ll likely end up with a config/autoload directory polluted with a plethora of configuration, including for dependencies, routing, and middleware.

[...] As it turns out, this was something which was already identified by other developers, including the Zend Framework contributors. [...] In there, he mentioned ConfigProvider classes as a simple way of enabling ZendForm ViewHelpers, which aren’t enabled by default in Zend Expressive. As I looked at the composition of the file, I realized that this was the answer I needed to solve the configuration issue I created for myself.

A screencast is included in the post showing off the solution but the code an explanation are below that as well for those more interested in reading than watching a video. He walks you through the creation of the configuration provider including setting up the dependency configuration, updating the route handling and, finally, actually using the provider in your global configuration.