Appendix D - The INI Format

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• What is Dependency Injection?
• Dependency Injection Containers
• The Symfony Service Container
• Using a Builder to create Services
• Using XML or YAML to describe Services
• The Need for Speed
• Appendix A - The PHP Format
• Appendix B - The XML Format
• Appendix C - The YAML Format
• Appendix D - The INI Format
• Appendix E - License

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This appendix describes the INI format used to describe parameters.

The INI format is only able to describe parameters. You cannot define imports, nor can you import other resources from an INI file.

As for the XML and YAML format, the INI format supports placeholders.

Parameters

Only the [parameters] section of an INI file is parsed:

[parameters]
  foo = bar
  bar = %foo%

The file can only define simple key/value pairs. The same parsing rules as the ones for the PHP built-in parse_ini_file() function apply.