The Zend Developer Zone has posted another in the "Hidden Gems" series by Aaron Wormus, this time looking at the Zend_Config component.

Managing configuration is a pretty simple thing to do in PHP, in fact, I'd bet that at some point in their programming career every php programmer has written code. But as soon as you get a bit bigger you realize that you're going to have trouble accessing your configuration variable.

There are many reasons to manage your configuration data indepenantly from your business logic. One common reason is that you don't want to enter your configuration data into the public versioning system that you use.

Aaron looks at how you can use the component in your application easily including an example using the built-in inheritance functionality to easily manage a move from development to production.