New in Symfony 3.3: Import config files with glob patterns

Contributed by
Pierre du Plessis
in #21270.

The Symfony DependencyInjection component is pretty flexible in the way you can import other files in your application configuration. You can for example mix config formats when needed:

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# app/config/config.ymlimports:-{resource:'../common/config.yml'}-{resource:'dynamic-config.php'}-{resource:'parameters.ini'}-{resource:'security.xml'}# ...

You can also import entire directories to load all the resources inside them:

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# app/config/config.ymlimports:-{resource:'../common/'}-{resource:'acme/'}# ...

In Symfony 3.3 we improved this feature to support importing config files with glob patterns. This will simplify your configuration files because you can now import lots of different resources in a compact way:

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# app/config/config.ymlimports:-{resource:"*.yml"}-{resource:"common/**/*.xml"}-{resource:"/etc/myapp/*.{yml,xml}"}-{resource:"bundles/*/{xml,yaml}/services.{yml,xml}"}# ...