At the bottom of settings.php, add the following code:

$local_settings = __DIR__ . '/settings.local.php';if (file_exists($local_settings)) {  include $local_settings;}

This allows for you to create a new file called settings.local.php within a sites/* directory (the same place as settings.php), and this will be included as an extension of settings.php. You can see the same technique being used within Drupal 8's default.settings.php file.

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• Drupal 8
• settings.php