Dive into Zend_Config Deeply

As we all know,there is application.ini file during the bootstrap period. The configuration file as a parameter passes into the Zend_Application;

    public function __construct($environment, $options = null)
    {
        $this->_environment = (string) $environment;

        #require_once 'Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php';
        $this->_autoloader = Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();

        if (null !== $options) {
            if (is_string($options)) {
                $options = $this->_loadConfig($options);
            } elseif ($options instanceof Zend_Config) {
                $options = $options->toArray();
            } elseif (!is_array($options)) {
                throw new Zend_Application_Exception('Invalid options provided; must be location of config file, a config object, or an array');
            }

            $this->setOptions($options);
        }
    }

2.Load the configuration file and convert it into array;

protected function _loadConfig($file)
    {
        $environment = $this->getEnvironment();
        $suffix      = strtolower(pathinfo($file, PATHINFO_EXTENSION));

        switch ($suffix) {
            case 'ini':
                $config = new Zend_Config_Ini($file, $environment);
                break;

            case 'xml':
                $config = new Zend_Config_Xml($file, $environment);
                break;

            case 'json':
                $config = new Zend_Config_Json($file, $environment);
                break;

            case 'yaml':
                $config = new Zend_Config_Yaml($file, $environment);
                break;

            case 'php':
            case 'inc':
                $config = include $file;
                if (!is_array($config)) {
                    throw new Zend_Application_Exception('Invalid configuration file provided; PHP file does not return array value');
                }
                return $config;
                break;

            default:
                throw new Zend_Application_Exception('Invalid configuration file provided; unknown config type');
        }

        return $config->toArray();
    }

3.Use setOptions() method to pass the configuration to Zend MVC system

public function setOptions(array $options)
    {
        if (!empty($options['config'])) {
            if (is_array($options['config'])) {
                $_options = array();
                foreach ($options['config'] as $tmp) {
                    $_options = $this->mergeOptions($_options, $this->_loadConfig($tmp));
                }
                $options = $this->mergeOptions($_options, $options);
            } else {
                $options = $this->mergeOptions($this->_loadConfig($options['config']), $options);
            }
        }

        $this->_options = $options;

        $options = array_change_key_case($options, CASE_LOWER);

        $this->_optionKeys = array_keys($options);

        if (!empty($options['phpsettings'])) {
            $this->setPhpSettings($options['phpsettings']);
        }

        if (!empty($options['includepaths'])) {
            $this->setIncludePaths($options['includepaths']);
        }

        if (!empty($options['autoloadernamespaces'])) {
            $this->setAutoloaderNamespaces($options['autoloadernamespaces']);
        }

        if (!empty($options['autoloaderzfpath'])) {
            $autoloader = $this->getAutoloader();
            if (method_exists($autoloader, 'setZfPath')) {
                $zfPath    = $options['autoloaderzfpath'];
                $zfVersion = !empty($options['autoloaderzfversion'])
                           ? $options['autoloaderzfversion']
                           : 'latest';
                $autoloader->setZfPath($zfPath, $zfVersion);
            }
        }

        if (!empty($options['bootstrap'])) {
            $bootstrap = $options['bootstrap'];

            if (is_string($bootstrap)) {
                $this->setBootstrap($bootstrap);
            } elseif (is_array($bootstrap)) {
                if (empty($bootstrap['path'])) {
                    throw new Zend_Application_Exception('No bootstrap path provided');
                }

                $path  = $bootstrap['path'];
                $class = null;

                if (!empty($bootstrap['class'])) {
                    $class = $bootstrap['class'];
                }

                $this->setBootstrap($path, $class);
            } else {
                throw new Zend_Application_Exception('Invalid bootstrap information provided');
            }
        }

        return $this;
    }