README

Manage multiple environments in your CakePHP application that differ in, e.g.:

• database setup
• configuration settings (Configure)
• custom feature flags

Requirements

• PHP 5.6.0+
• CakePHP 3.x

What it does

The Environment plugin hooks into your bootstrap process to initialize the database configuration, configuration parameters and additional custom logic for different environments.

An environment is defined and detected either by a set of domains (e.g. www.domain.com, domain.com, domain.net) or optionally by the absolute app path on a server (cli).

Install and use the plugin

1. composer require frankfoerster/cakephp-environment

2. Copy the example configuration files from example/config/Environment to your app /config/Environment

3. Add the following lines to your config/bootstrap.php file

   use FrankFoerster\Environment\Environments;
   
   Environments::init();

   before

   ConnectionManager::setConfig(Configure::consume('Datasources'));

   If you want to setup environment specific settings for any "consumed" configuration option, then make sure your environments are initialized before the corresponding Configure::consume('...') call.

Tags ~1.0 are releases for CakePHP 2.x support (master branch).
Tags ~3.0 are releases for CakePHP 3.x support (cake3 branch).

Configuration

The configuration of your environments is managed with multiple files.

• config.php is the global configuration file that is applied to all detected environments.
• environment.{name}.php is a single environment file that contains the environment specific $configure array

Settings defined in an environment configuration file are deeply merged with the global configuration.