Configuration

Herbie uses a configuration file to hold settings. These default configurations are defined in the config/defaults.php file.

The following variables are available in the configuration file as PHP constants as constant strings:

APP_PATH
SITE_PATH
WEB_PATH
WEB_URL

These constant strings are parsed at runtime.

Override settings

All default settings can be overridden in a separate configuration file. This file must be located at site/config/main.php.

If Herbie finds a file with valid values, the default settings will be overwritten with them.

Example

For a project, nice readable URLs and Twig debugging should be enabled.

For this purpose a file site/config/main.php is created with the following content:

<?php

return [
    'components' => [
        'twigRenderer' => [
            'debug' => true
        ],
        'urlManager' => [
            'niceUrls' => true,
        ]
    ]
];

This overrides the desired settings.

Dot notation

All configuration values can be accessed via a function with support for dot notation.

The following function calls:

{{ site.config.as_string('charset') }}
{{ site.config.as_string('fileExtensions.pages') }}
{{ site.config.as_bool('plugins.CORE.enableTwigInLayoutFilter') }}

Return the following values:

Charset = UTF-8
Page extensions = htm,html,markdown,md,rss,rst,textile,txt,xml
Enable twig = 1