Configuration API

Configuration API

Information about the Configuration API.

The Configuration API is one of several methods in Drupal for storing information. See the Information types topic for an overview of the different types of information. The sections below have more information about the configuration API; see https://www.drupal.org/developing/api/8/configuration for more details.

Configuration storage

In Drupal, there is a concept of the "active" configuration, which is the configuration that is currently in use for a site. The storage used for the active configuration is configurable: it could be in the database, in files in a particular directory, or in other storage backends; the