Accessing constants in config/main file

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi all,

 I want to access a veriable from constant component file in the config/main.php file. For example,      


 I have a ConfigManager Class  in my component dir as  





<?php

class ConfigManager {

        public static $dbUserName = 'root';

        public static $dbPassword = 'test123';

}

?>

And in config file I want to do it like this -




'db'=>array(

        'class'=>'CDbConnection',

        'connectionString'=>'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=dbname',

        'username'=> ConfigManager::$dbUserName,

        'password'=> ConfigManager::$dbPassword,

        'emulatePrepare'=>true,

),

But it is giving require error. Can’t find class ConfigManager. Is it possible to do it like this?

Thanks!

2

The components aren’t loaded until after the config file. Not surprising, given that the config file contains the information needed to load them. You could include/require ConfigManager.php in your config file.

3

Let me ask one question: What do you win by using such a ConfigManager class?

4

Hi Mike,

Actually I have some other configuration parameters like




     $serverTimeZone = 'Asia/Calcutta';





  What I would like to have single configuration file that just need to be edited while configuring the application. So I want to have ConfigManager file to place all the configurations and it will configure rest of the application. 





    May be its not right idea&#33;

Please replay!

Thanks again.

5

There are lot of ways to do something similar. My favorite approach is to keep a file local.php in config/ that gets merged into the main.php config array. That way you can override/add settings in your local config file. Similar to this:

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/cookbook/32/