How to make your Laravel package config file overwritten after its publication.md

#How to make your Laravel 4.2 package config file overwritten after its publication

I spent a lot of time to try to figure out of this stupid problem that anyway is not well documented in Laravel 4.2 After have developed your package or a workbech and had published your personal configuration:

php artisan config:publish vendor/namespace

The library still load the origin package configuration.

Why?

How to overwrite the package config file is not well documented in the workbench Laravel documentation 4.2.

The solution is very simple: tell your service provider to overwrite origin config file if an application config file exists

So in your service provider definition add:

public function boot() {
    $this->package('vendor/name', 'namespace');
}
    
public function register() {
    $loader = $this->app['config']->getLoader();

    // Get environment name
    $env = $this->app['config']->getEnvironment();

    // Add package namespace with path set, override package if app config exists in the main app directory
    if (file_exists(app_path() . '/config/packages/vendor/namespace')) {
        $loader->addNamespace('namespace', app_path() . '/config/packages/vendor/namespace');
    } else {
        $loader->addNamespace('namespace', __DIR__ . '/../../config');
    }

    $config = $loader->load($env, 'config', 'namespace');

    $this->app['config']->set('namespace::config', $config);
      
    ...  
    

Now everybody that use your library can overwrite the original configuration.