Rob Allen writes; A friend of mine recently had a requirement where she wanted to have two config files loaded into Zend_Application, so that the specific settings for the server were not stored in the version control system.
Hence she has two config files: application.ini and local.ini where local.ini is different on each server.
The easiest way to approach this problem is to load the two files within index.php, merge them and then pass the merged config file to Zend_Application.
The code to do this looks like this: Local config files and Zend_Application.