Laravel Configuration Extension

An extension for the standard Laravel's Config class that enables developers to create and manipulate configuration files at runtime, so that configuration values are persistent across multiple requests instead of calling Config::set() on every request.

General Purpose

The standard Config class has no method to create nor to save new configuration files so, I made this simple package just to do these do things.

Support

This package is supported in Laravel versions 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 and hopefully 5.3. And of course the package is meant to be used with the file driver of Config.

Installation

1. Use composer to install it as follows:

composer require grey-dev-0/laravel-config

2. Modify the config/app.php file. For Laravel 5.0
   Add this entry to the providers array.

'GreyDev\ConfigExtension\ConfigExtensionProvider'

Modify the Config value in the aliases array to this:

'GreyDev\ConfigExtension\ConfigExtensionFacade'

For Laravel 5.1+
Add this entry to the providers array.

GreyDev\ConfigExtension\ConfigExtensionProvider::class

Modify the Config value in the aliases array to this:

GreyDev\ConfigExtension\ConfigExtensionFacade::class

That's it you're good to go.

Usage

Along with other default Config methods like get and set, this package adds two extra methods create for creating new configuration file with the data you enable the users to set and, save which saves an existing or a new configuration value to an existing configuration file.

# To create a new file you can do like the following.
Config::create('myConfigFile', [
 'key1' => 'something',
 'key2' => [
  'deepData' => 'deepValues'
 ],
 'key3' => 123,
 'key4' => true
]);

# To save a value into an existing configuration file.
Config::save('myConfigFile.key4', false);
Config::save('myConfigFile.keyX', 5.2);

After running the code above you'll find a file in your config folder with the name myConfigFile.php containing the following data:

return [
  'key1' => 'something',
  'key2' => [
   'deepData' => 'deepValues'
  ],
  'key3' => 123,
  'key4' => false,
  'keyX' => 5.2
];

Notes

This package does not clear opcache if it's used so new configuration values might not be applied on the next requests until you clear it manually. In case if opcache is used make sure to call clear_opcache() before using create or save methods.

License: MIT.