Laravel YAML Config

The usual Laravel config files, but with one YAML file. Write objects and arrays in your config without having to write ugly inline, JSON.

🚀 Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require renoki-co/laravel-yaml-config

Publish the config:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="RenokiCo\LaravelYamlConfig\LaravelYamlConfigServiceProvider" --tag="config"

🙌 Usage

This package makes sure you don't have to use inline-JSON in your .env files that would look like this:

AWS_CLUSTERS='[{"region": "us-east-1", "url": "..."}, {"region": "eu-west-1", "url": "..."}]'

// config/clusters.php
return [
    'aws' => env('AWS_CLUSTERS', json_encode([
        // create a default for it
    ])),
];

First, create a local .laravel.yaml file in your root Laravel project:

touch .laravel.yaml

Declare your configuration in YAML:

clusters:
  aws:
    - region: us-east-1
      url: https://...
    - region: eu-west-1
      url: https://...
  google:
    - region: europe-west1
      url: https://...

foreach (config('clusters.aws') as $cluster) {
    // $cluster['region']
}

You shouldn't commit your .laravel.yaml files to your code repo:

echo ".laravel.yaml\n.laravel.yml" >> .gitignore

Replacing nested variables

While the package lets you set arbitrary config without messing with ugly encoded JSON, you can still use it to update nested variables with already-existing configuration:

database:
  connectons:
    mysql:
      host: mysql
clusters:
  aws:
    # ...

Declaring defaults

While you shouldn't commit your .laravel.yaml file, you can commit a .laravel.defaults.yaml file that can contain defaults for specific configs you have declared:

touch .laravel.config.yaml

clusters:
  aws: []
  google: []

Sequential lists

Take extra caution when declaring defaults for lists of items:

# .laravel.defaults.yaml
clusters:
  - region: us-east-1
  - region: eu-west-1

When a config that contains lists that are pre-filled, with a .laravel.yaml like this, an odd behavior appears:

# .laravel.yaml
clusters:
  - region: ap-south-1

When you'd expect the final value of clusters to contain only one item, it will actually contain two items, with the first one being replaced instead:

// 'clusters' => [
//     ['region' => 'ap-south-1'],
//     ['region' => 'eu-west-1'],
// ]

dump(config('clusters'));

🐛 Testing

vendor/bin/phpunit

🤝 Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

🔒 Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email alex@renoki.org instead of using the issue tracker.

🎉 Credits

• Alex Renoki
• All Contributors