1: <?php
 2: /**
 3:  * CakePHP(tm) : Rapid Development Framework (http://cakephp.org)
 4:  * Copyright 2005-2012, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
 5:  *
 6:  * Licensed under The MIT License
 7:  * Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice.
 8:  *
 9:  * @copyright     Copyright 2005-2012, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
10:  * @link          http://cakephp.org CakePHP(tm) Project
11:  * @package       Cake.Core
12:  * @since         CakePHP(tm) v 1.0.0.2363
13:  * @license       MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
14:  */
15: 
16: /**
17:  * An interface for creating objects compatible with Configure::load()
18:  *
19:  * @package       Cake.Core
20:  */
21: interface ConfigReaderInterface {
22: 
23: /**
24:  * Read method is used for reading configuration information from sources.
25:  * These sources can either be static resources like files, or dynamic ones like
26:  * a database, or other datasource.
27:  *
28:  * @param string $key
29:  * @return array An array of data to merge into the runtime configuration
30:  */
31:     public function read($key);
32: 
33: }
34: