Introduction

In PHP, the ConfigProvider is a class that is part of an application's bootstrap process. It returns an array of configuration, settings, or anything else your application needs. In Dotkernel, each application module and package contains a ConfigProvider that normally returns:

Dependency injection mappings.
Request Handlers.
Template file paths.

Here is an example in Dotkernel, which is an approach similar to Laminas/Mezzio:

class ConfigProvider
{
    public function __invoke(): array
    {
        return [
            'dependencies' => $this->getDependencies(),
            'templates'    => $this->getTemplates(),
        ];
    }

    public function getDependencies(): array
    {
        return [
            'factories'  => [
                Handler\HomepageHandler::class => Handler\HomepageHandlerFactory::class,
                Handler\SearchHandler::class   => Handler\SearchHandlerFactory::class,
            ],
            'invokables' => [
                Console\GenerateSearchData::class => Console\GenerateSearchData::class,
           ],
        ];
    }

    public function getTemplates(): array
    {
        return [
            'app'   => [__DIR__ . '/../templates/app'],
            'error' => [__DIR__ . '/../templates/error'],
        ];
    }
}

All Dotkernel applications and packages use ConfigProviders:

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