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[Config] add cautionary note on ini file loader limitation #3431

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add warning for inifile loader
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address comments, even the Boolean one
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Expand Up @@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ The Config component provides several classes to help you find, load, combine,
autofill and validate configuration values of any kind, whatever their source
may be (YAML, XML, INI files, or for instance a database).

.. caution::

The ``IniFileLoader`` parses with the :phpfunction:`parse_ini_file` function,
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The IniFileLoader parses the file contents using the :phpfunction:parse_ini_file function. Therefore, [...]

therefore, you can only set parameters to string values. To set parameters
to other data types (e.g. boolean, integer, etc), the other loaders
are recommended.

Installation
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