How to get config data in laravel in a subfolder

Question

I have the Laravel Administrator Plugin and I set up a setting administrator page that is located in:

app/config/administrator/settings/site.php

The application can store the data, but when i try to get some data in one of my controllers like this:

Config::get('administrator.settings.site')

I can get a returned value... Always null or array 0.

How I can get those configuration values?

Answer 1

Solution:

You can use a file path rather than dot notation for file paths:

Config::get('administrator/settings/site.variable_name');

Some Explanation

Dot notation is used to get variables inside the config array within a file, rather than to denote file paths.

Therefore you can use Config::get('administrator/settings/site.variable_name'); to get $variable_name from administrator/settings/site.php, or ENV_DIR_NAME/administrator/settings/site.php depending on your environment.

Directories within in app/config are read as environments. For example app/development/database.php will work with Config::get('database.whatever') when you're in your "development" environment while app/production/database.php will be read with Config::get('database.whatever') when you're in the "production" environment.

Laravel falls back to the config/config/*.php file when no environment-specific file is present.

Note

I believe that admin package has a config file in app/config/packages/frozennode/administrator/administrator.php which the package would like you to use for it's settings. That should be available using this convention: Config::get('package::file.option');