All of the configuration files for the Magister 6 API are stored in the config directory. Feel free to look through the files and get familiar with the options available to you.
The Magister 6 API stores the configuration in the environment. It is often helpful to have different configuration values based on the environment the application is running in. There are two ways of modifying the Magister 6 API's configuration, one utilizing a third party package and one utilizing native PHP. Both of these ways serve the same purpose, although in a different way.
The DotEnv PHP library by Vance Lucas uses a .env file to load environment variables to the PHP environment. You will need to add this package to your Composer requirements. Once this is done, simply create a .env file in your root directory and define your configuration options in there. See the .env.example file provided by the Magister 6 API for a sample configuration.
You need to instantiate the Dotenv class before creating a Magister instance:
(new Dotenv\Dotenv(__DIR__))->load();
$magister = new Magister\Magister(...);
For more information on how to use phpdotenv, visit their GitHub page.
Although the DotEnv PHP library is our preferred method, the same is possible without using any third party packages while sticking to native PHP functions. We need to use the following function to create an environment variable:
putenv("FOO=BAR");
This will set the environment variable FOO to the value BAR. This does the exact same as the phpdotenv package, although instead of in a .env file, the environment variables are defined directly in your code. Likewise, these need to be defined before you create the Magister object. You can imagine this becoming a mess when you need to define multiple environment variables like this.
All of the configuration variables defined will be loaded into the $_ENV PHP super-global when your application receives a request. The Magister 6 API uses an env helper to retrieve the values from these variables in the configuration files.
'key' => env('MAGISTER_ENCRYPTION_KEY', null),
The second value passed to the env function is the "default value". This value will be used if no environment variable exists for the given key.
By default all Magister configuration options are prefixed by MAGISTER_.