borschphp/config

A minimal configuration manager.

1.3.3 2025-10-20 14:33 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.3
• dflydev/dot-access-data: ^3.0
• psr/container: ^2.0
• symfony/yaml: ^7.3
• vlucas/phpdotenv: ^5.6

Requires (Dev)

• pestphp/pest: ^4.0
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.1

MIT

• Alexandre Debusschère

• configuration
• config
• Settings
• borschphp

README

A lightweight and easy to use configuration library.

Features

• Simple and intuitive API
• Support for multiple file formats (JSON, YAML, INI, DOTENV)
• Aggregate multiple configuration sources
• Caching for improved performance in production

Installation

Via composer :

composer require borschphp/config

Usage

The Config class implements the ContainerInterface from PSR-11, therefore you have access to all its methods to check if a key exists and to retrieve its value.
A getOrDefault() method is also available to provide a default value if the key does not exist.

Internally, readers are used to parse configuration files of different formats. The following readers are available:

• Borsch\Config\Reader\Json for JSON files
• Borsch\Config\Reader\Yaml for YAML files (via symfony/yaml)
• Borsch\Config\Reader\Ini for INI files
• Borsch\Config\Reader\DotEnv for DOTENV files (via vlucas/phpdotenv)

The Aggregator class allows you to merge multiple configuration sources into a single Config instance. You can also provide a cache file path to store the merged configuration for faster access in production environments.

A simple example with just one reader :

<?php

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Borsch\Config\Config;
use Borsch\Config\Reader\DotEnv;

$env = new DotEnv();
$env_data = $env->fromFile(__DIR__ . '/.env');

$config = new Config($env_data);

$key = $config->has('key') ? $config->get('key') : 'other_value';
$other = $config->getOrDefault('other', 'default_value');

A more complete example with multiple readers :

<?php

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Borsch\Config\Aggregator;
use Borsch\Config\Config;
use Borsch\Config\Reader\DotEnv;
use Borsch\Config\Reader\Ini;
use Borsch\Config\Reader\Json;
use Borsch\Config\Reader\Yaml;

$ini = new Ini();
$ini_data = $ini->fromFile(__DIR__ . '/config.ini');

$env = new DotEnv();
$env_data = $env->fromFile(__DIR__ . '/.env');

$json = new Json();
$json_data = $json->fromFile(__DIR__ . '/config.json');

$yaml = new Yaml();
$yaml_data = $yaml->fromFile(__DIR__ . '/config.yaml');

$aggregator = new Aggregator(
    [
        $ini_data,
        $env_data,
        $json_data,
        $yaml_data,
        [
            'key' => 'value'
        ]
    ]
);

/** @var Config $config */
$config = $aggregator->getMergedConfig();

$key = $config->has('key') ? $config->get('key') : 'other_value';
$other = $config->getOrDefault('other', 'default_value');

Providers

Providers allow you to specify file paths, internally it uses the glob() function to find matching files so you can use glob() patterns. Because the providers are callable, configuration loading can be deferred until actually needed, this is the recommended way to build your configuration in order to avoid unnecessary file parsing in production.

There is no interface for providers, they just need to be classes implementing the __invoke() method and returning an array.
Therefore, it is possible to only provide the provider FQDN if there is no constructor arguments. Example :

$aggregator = new Aggregator(
    [
        Application\Config\MyConfigProvider::class
    ]
);

A complete example with providers and caching enabled :

<?php

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Borsch\Config\Aggregator;
use Borsch\Config\Config;
use Borsch\Config\Provider\DotEnvProvider;
use Borsch\Config\Provider\IniProvider;
use Borsch\Config\Provider\JsonProvider;
use Borsch\Config\Provider\PhpFileProvider;
use Borsch\Config\Provider\YamlProvider;

$aggregator = new Aggregator(
    [
        new PhpFileProvider('config/production.*.config.php'),
        new JsonProvider('config/production.*.config.json'),
        new YamlProvider('config/production.*.config.y{a,}ml'),
        new IniProvider('config/production.*.config.ini'),
        new DotEnvProvider('config/.env.production.*'),
    ],
    cache_file: __DIR__.'/storage/cache/config.cache.php',
    use_cache: true
);

/** @var Config $config */
$config = $aggregator->getMergedConfig();

$key = $config->has('key') ? $config->get('key') : 'other_value';
$other = $config->getOrDefault('other', 'default_value');

License

The package is licensed under the MIT license. See License File for more information.