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Better services organisation in Symfony🔗

In bigger application your services.yml will became messy, so with this change you will be able to separate your services configuration into multiple files.

You will need to add this code at the end for the method configureContainer in your app Kernel:

For Symfony 4.* 

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// Load specific services dirs per env:
$loader->load($confDir . '/{services}/*' . self::CONFIG_EXTS, 'glob'); // all envs
$loader->load($confDir . '/{services}/' . $this->environment . '/*' . self::CONFIG_EXTS, 'glob'); // specific per env

For Symfony 5.*

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$container->import('../config/{services}/*.php');
$container->import('../config/{services}/' . $this->environment . '/*.php');

With these changes, services configurations will be located in the files config/services/*.php and config/services/{prod,dev,test}/*.php.

One advantage of having multiple services configurations files, is that you can symlink them so if you need the same services in different envs (but not in test env for instance) you don't need to duplicate the file content.

Last update: December 20, 2024