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A simple package that brings the cascading configuration system back into Laravel 5 and its sister project, Lumen.

Requirements

Laravel 5, or
Lumen >=5.1

Features

Laravel-4 style cascading config (can't believe I'm writing this)
Nested configuration is fully supported

Installation

First, require phanan/cascading-config into your composer.json and run composer update:

    "require": {
        "phanan/cascading-config": "~2.0"
    },

An environment-based configuration directory should have a name with this format config.{APP_ENV}, and reside in the same directory as the default config dir. For Laravel, php artisan vendor:publish will create a sample directory for your local environment. For Lumen, you'll have to create the directories manually.

Your application structure now should have something like this:

config
├── app.php
├── auth.php
├── cache.php
├── compile.php
├── database.php
├── mail.php
└── ...
config.local
├── app.php
├── auth.php
├── cache.php
├── mail.php
└── nested
    └── app.php

Fill the configuration into your environment-based config directory (config.local, config.staging, config.production), just like what you've always done in Laravel 4,

Usage

For Laravel

Add the package's service provider class into config/app.php:

'providers' => [
    /*
     * ...
     */
    App\Providers\AppServiceProvider::class,
    App\Providers\EventServiceProvider::class,
    App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider::class,

    PhanAn\CascadingConfig\CascadingConfigServiceProvider::class,
],

Call config($key)

For Lumen

// $app->register(App\Providers\AppServiceProvider::class);
// $app->register(App\Providers\EventServiceProvider::class);
$app->register(PhanAn\CascadingConfig\CascadingConfigServiceProvider::class);

Enable multi-environment support by uncommenting this line:
```
Dotenv::load(__DIR__.'/../');
```

Manually register the configuration arrays:

$app->configure('auth');
$app->configure('cache');
$app->configure('mail');

Call config($key)

Notes

Because of the way array_merge_recursive() works, a config key with value being an indexed (non-associative) array (for instance, app.providers) will have the value's items overridden. See #6 for more details on this behavior, and how to work around it.

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