merging configs

[glensc]

hi

i would like to have "dist" config and "local" configs, so most of the things, like declaring formatters, processors, handlers are done in "dist" file and loggers from "local" file

from current code reading i see Cascade::fileConfig would just overwrite self::$config, so no merging there.

[rantonmattei]

What would you want? Being able to call it twice and have the 2 configs merged?

I would probably add a method to load the config array into the Config object without configuring it (i.e. parse and interpret).

    /**
     * Load configuration options from a file or a string without configuring Cascade
     *
     * @param string $resource path to config file or string or array
     */
    public static function loadConfig($resource)
    {
        self::$config = new Config($resource, new ConfigLoader());
        self::$config->load();
    }

And then call it one or more times:

Cascade::loadConfig('./my/first_config.yml');
Cascade::loadConfig('./my/second_config.yml');

Cascade::getConfig()->configure();

You would also need to add an array_merge the in the load method of the Config class.

[rantonmattei]

The alternative would be to do the merging offline before you even use Cascade. You read your config files merge them into an array using array_merge and then call Cascade::fileConfig($yourMergedArray)

[glensc]

yup. i already went with the array way. but for future would be good if cascade supported this out of the box. symfony does so ;)