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Posted by chaabant on Dec 9, 2011

When doing a PHP project you will need some kind of configuration since we are not using a CMS like WordPress or Joomla , In Kohana we have to do it manually …

Kohana make this process easy , here’s the steps for having a configuration file and using it in our application .

First Step :

Add a new file (site.php) inside the following directory (application -> config -> site.php)

past the following code inside that file :

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<?php defined('SYSPATH') or die('No direct script access.');
return array(
    'name'     => 'PHP Tutorials',
    'tag_line' => "Let's talk about kohana!"
);
 
<?php defined('SYSPATH') or die('No direct script access.');
return array(
    'name'     => 'PHP Tutorials',
    'tag_line' => "Let's talk about kohana!"
);

Now to use that configuration we could use the following requests :

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// full array
$site_config_1 = Kohana::$config->load('site');
// items inside the array
$site_config_2 = Kohana::$config->load('site.name');
 
// full array
$site_config_1 = Kohana::$config->load('site');
// items inside the array
$site_config_2 = Kohana::$config->load('site.name');

$site_config_1 would return the full array that we have in our configuration

while

$site_config_2 would only return PHP Tutorials

We could even go farther and add an array inside the array in the configuration file in that case if we wanted to access a specific child we would call it using site.name.child …

Hope this post helped you , if you have any question let me know .


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