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Hi guys, A quick question about changing the DB and Environment settings on Fuel. We are building a web app and have it on our local, development and live servers. Each server is using a different DB. What is the best way you can change that automatically depending on which server it is on? Currently, I have changed the config.php file to instead of returning array straight off; it puts it in a variable, does a check for the URL and changes the Env respectively. Then returns the array. Is there something I've missed to do this better, seems the only way I can do it at the moment. Cheers for getting back to me. I've copied the code at the bottom of this post. Thanks,
Steve

<?php
/**
 * Fuel is a fast, lightweight, community driven PHP5 framework.
 *
 * @package    Fuel
 * @version    1.0
 * @author     Fuel Development Team
 * @license    MIT License
 * @copyright  2010 - 2011 Fuel Development Team
 * @link       [url=http://fuelphp.com]http://fuelphp.com[/url]
 */

$config = array(

 /**
  * base_url - The base URL of the application.
  * MUST contain a trailing slash (/)
  *
  * You can set this to a full or relative URL:
  *
  *     'base_url' => '/foo',
  *     'base_url' => 'http://foo.com/'
  *
  * Set this to null to have it automatically detected.
  */
 'base_url'  => null,

 /**
  * index_file - The name of the main bootstrap file.
  *
  * Set this to false or remove if you using mod_rewrite.
  */
 'index_file' => false,

 /**
  * Your environment.  Can be set to any of the following:
  *
  * Fuel::DEVELOPMENT
  * Fuel::TEST
  * Fuel::STAGE
  * Fuel::PRODUCTION
  */
 'environment' => Fuel::DEVELOPMENT,

 /* ... Rest of the array removed for brevity... */

);

// Switch Env depending on the HTTP Host.

switch(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
 case 'local.dev':
 case 'www.local.dev':
  $config['environment'] = Fuel::DEVELOPMENT;
 break;
 
 case 'test.dev':
 case 'www.test.dev':
  $config['environment'] = Fuel::TEST;
 break;
 
 case 'stage.dev':
 case 'www.stage.dev':
  $config['environment'] =  Fuel::STAGE;
 break;
 
 case 'production.dev':
 case 'www.production.dev':
  $config['environment'] =  Fuel::PRODUCTION;
 break;
 
 default:
  $config['environment'] = Fuel::DEVELOPMENT;
 break;
}

return $config
/* End of file config.php */