FuelPHP custom environments - fuelphp

Question

I'm moving an existing FuelPHP application across to a new environment, and I've reached the point where I could really do with adding another environment beyond the default 4 (ie. development, test, stage, production), which are all already in use elsewhere.
Is there any reasonably straightforward way of adding an extra environment to FuelPHP? If there is, I'd appreciate any guidance on how to do it.

Answer 1

Yes its possible but its not documented any where , here is the hacked approach that I found after looking at your posting
Below are the steps to create custom environment in FUel php application
for example you need to call your new environment as 'experiment' then
1 . Create a folder called experiment inside fuel/app/config directory
2 . create db.php file inside fuel/app/config/experiment directory with below contents you can add your other config but below are the default DB configurations ( change it according to your platform ) also other migration files could be copied to this folder from other environment
return array(
'default' => array(
'connection' => array(
'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=yourappdatabasename',
'username' => 'yourDBuname',
'password' => 'yourDBpassword',
),
),
);
3 . Next change the env name inside Fuel/app/bootstrap.php file
Fuel::$env = (isset($_SERVER['FUEL_ENV']) ? $_SERVER['FUEL_ENV'] : Fuel::EXPERIMENT);
4 . Then open Fuel/core/classes/Fuel.php file and add a new constant to Fuel class like below at the top of the class , I think you could find other environments also declared there .
const EXPERIMENT = 'experiment';
And that's all you have created a new custom environment in Fuel php application ,
NOTE : - this approach is a hacked approach not officially documented
any where
Posting here by hoping it may help you or others with similar
requirements
EDIT : - This is for versions > 1.5
Step 1 and step 2 are same
3 . (Assuming you're using Apache) set FUEL_ENV server variable to your new environment name by adding the following line to your VirtualHost configuration:
SetEnv FUEL_ENV experiment
That's all there is to it (on Apache, anyway). No need to add a const to core/fuel.php (as per the pre-defined environments). This is unnecessary and will only make it difficult to upgrade Fuel's core.