[Flow] Own Constant into YAML Configuration

[Peter Russ]

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Absender:   Bastian Waidelich
Datum:       11.04.2014 12:42:
> Peter Russ wrote:
>
>> What is the recommended approach to get environment parameters into the
>> YAML configuration to be used like a FLOW constant?
>
> Not sure whether I got your question right..
> With the %<CONSTANT>% syntax you can refer to PHP constants from within
> your settings (see [1]).
>
> You can't set PHP Constants from the "outside" AFAIK. You *could*
> however use the "auto_prepend_file" directive [2] to include a file that
> sets the constant, but that seems a bit hacky to me.
>
> As to *environment variables*: You can't *set* those via the settings,
> but for instance through a "SetEnv" option for apache:
> SetEnv SOME_CONSTANT SomeValue
>
> You can't access those in the settings though..
> Could you elaborate on what you're trying to achieve?
>
>
> [1]
> http://docs.typo3.org/flow/TYPO3FlowDocumentation/TheDefinitiveGuide/PartIII/Configuration.html#constants
>
>
> [2] http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.auto-prepend-file
>

Thanks for that links but they are known ;-)
We need the constants on command line and nginx. Autoprepend is not an 
option.
The only way we found was to patch index.php and flow.php to define and 
add that to make it available for YAML parsing.

It would be pretty helpful if we could define allowed environment 
constants to be included into FLOW.

e.g.
FLOW_ADDITINAL_CONSTANTS=MY_CONSTANTS_1,APPLICATION_VALUE_2,..

I will prepare a CR...

Peter.


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