Create Custom Config File in CodeIgniter 4

CodeIgniter 4 by default have many configuration files. Each configuration file is for different different task. Like initializing logger settings, migration settings, defining constants, database setup etc.

Now, inside this article we will see the concept to create custom config file in CodeIgniter 4. We will save custom configurations what we need to process the application. This article is going to be more exciting to learn.

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Let’s start this article step by step.

CodeIgniter 4 Installation

To create a CodeIgniter 4 setup run this given command into your shell or terminal. Please make sure composer should be installed.

composer create-project codeigniter4/appstarter codeigniter-4

Assuming you have successfully installed application into your local system.

Environment (.env) Setup

When we install CodeIgniter 4, we will have env file at root. To use the environment variables means using variables at global scope we need to do env to .env

Either we can do via renaming file as simple as that. Also we can do by terminal command.

Open project in terminal

cp env .env

Above command will create a copy of env file to .env file. Now we are ready to use environment variables.

Enable Development Mode

CodeIgniter starts up in production mode by default. You need to make it in development mode to see any error if you are working with application.

Open .env file from root.

# CI_ENVIRONMENT = production

 // Do it to 
 
CI_ENVIRONMENT = development

Now application is in development mode.

Create Custom Config

We will create config file via spark command line. To create config we use make:config

Open project into terminal and type this command.

$ php spark make:config MyConfig

This command will creates a file with name MyConfig.php inside /app/Config folder. Let’s open this file and add some piece of code into it.

<?php

namespace Config;

use CodeIgniter\Config\BaseConfig;

class MyConfig extends BaseConfig
{
	public $name = "Online Web Tutor";
	public $author = "Sanjay Kumar";

	public function get_info(){
		return $this->name. " - ". $this->author;
	}
}

As we can see, we have added two public member variables ($name, $author) and one member function (get_info()).

Load Custom Config Inside Application

Next, if say we want to load this custom config into any of controller. Let’s make a controller using spark command.

$ php spark make:controller Site

It will create a file with the name Site.php into /app/Controllers folder.

Open Site.php

<?php

namespace App\Controllers;
use Config\MyConfig; // Loading config class

class Home extends BaseController
{
	public function index()
	{
		$myconfig = new MyConfig; // Creating an instance
      
        echo $myconfig->author; // Accessing member variable

		echo $myconfig->get_info(); // Accessing member function
	}
}

Output

$myconfig->author outputs Sanjay Kumar

$myconfig->get_info() outputs Online Web Tutor - Sanjay Kumar

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