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ConfigKit

In order to provide ourselves a higher flexibility with the way we build templates for our Yii based projects, we built this kit. It is, in a way, the newest generation of the widely used YiiBootstrap, but it is so much better structured and less complex than the previously mentioned was.

As we all know, Yii has a very cumbersome array configuration for its bootstrap process. The main.php script normally contains a lot of information in it regarding application settings, components, modules and parameters, and many times we find ourselves dealing with a huge file with settings that, even though they are ordered by keys, fails to be clear due to the amount of lines within it.

ConfigKit tries to solve that issue, allowing us to create project templates with a different bootstrap and configuration building process. It proposes the following configuration folder structure:

Please, keep in mind that the above configuration folder structure is really up to you. ConfigKit requires a ConfigurationBuilder that you are responsible to develop and it can have the above recommendation or another one. For an example of a ConfigurationBuilder please visit https://github.com/sidekit/yii2-app-template/blob/master/src/App/Configuration/ConfigurationBuilder.php

Config File Examples

Example of app.php

Example of a component file: db.php

Environment Settings Overrides

We know how important settings for different environments are , such as: test, local, stage and prod environments. The proposed solution to dealing with them is as simple as adding a config folder with the name of the environment needed that has the same structure within, as the previously mentioned the folder. We never found ourselves having to clone the entire structure, so you can just simply place in it the files that contains the settings you wish to override.

Bootstrapping

We believe that application bootstrapping should also be as structured as its configuration. That way, all processes are much clear and easier to manage and scale. In the Yii 2 proposed project's template https://github.com/2amigos/yii2-app-template you can see a working sample of ConfigKit library + a proposed bootstrapping process. The following is the startup process of a web application:

Clean code

We have added some development tools for you to contribute to the library with clean code:

• PHP mess detector: Takes a given PHP source code base and look for several potential problems within that source.
• PHP code sniffer: Tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and CSS files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.
• PHP code fixer: Analyzes some PHP source code and tries to fix coding standards issues.

And you should use them in that order.

Using php mess detector

Sample with all options available:

Using code sniffer

Using code fixer

We have added a PHP code fixer to standardize our code. It includes Symfony, PSR2 and some contributors rules.

Testing

• TODO