How does INI section inheritance work?

[yoursurrogategod]

I googled this, but couldn't find anything specific.

 

Basically, if I have this file:

[production]
val1 = 'hello'

[staging : production]
val2 = 'world'

[development : staging]
val1 = 'g day'

 

When the file is read, when the parser gets to staging, it inherits val1 as 'hello' from production, but in development, it's set to 'g day', yes? And val2 remains as 'world' throughout, right? You can do such nested inheritance.

[Jessica]

Honestly, this is a topic I know nothing about, but did you TRY IT? It cannot possibly hurt to try.

[yoursurrogategod]

I should have mentioned that I'm working in Zend Framework 1.12.

 

But basically, what I described is what happens. This is a problem if you're using arrays and you're in a different section. The original array gets over-written and you lose the previous information. Gotta watch out for that.