I have tried a few different ways to do this, but if I do env("APP_ENV") I get the entires contents of the env file instead of the APP_ENV value
I know this is bad practice but I also get the same results when using Config
I have tried artisan cache:clear and artisan config:clear and still the same results.
// dd(Config::get('env')); // this does the same
dd(Config::get('app.APP_ENV'), Config::get('app.EMAILMODE'), env("APP_ENV"));
returns
"""
APP_NAME=Laravel
APP_ENV="local"
APP_KEY=*removed*
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_URL=*removed*
LOG_CHANNEL=stack
LOG_DEPRECATIONS_CHANNEL=null
LOG_LEVEL=debug
DB_CONNECTION=sqlsrv
DB_HOST=*removed*
DB_PORT=1433
DB_DATABASE=*removed*
DB_USERNAME=*removed*
DB_PASSWORD=*removed*
DB_ENCRYPT=true
DB_TRUST_SERVER_CERTIFICATE=true
""" // app/Http/Controllers/SecurityScanController.php:32
"testing" // app/Http/Controllers/SecurityScanController.php:32
"""
APP_NAME=Laravel
APP_ENV="local"
APP_KEY=*removed*
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_URL=*removed*
LOG_CHANNEL=stack
LOG_DEPRECATIONS_CHANNEL=null
LOG_LEVEL=debug
DB_CONNECTION=sqlsrv
DB_HOST=*removed*
DB_PORT=1433
DB_DATABASE=*removed*
DB_USERNAME=*removed*
DB_PASSWORD=*removed*
DB_ENCRYPT=true
DB_TRUST_SERVER_CERTIFICATE=true
""" // app/Http/Controllers/SecurityScanController.php:32
2
Answers
Thank you everyone for the help on this. I've eventually found out the originally code had an env file rotator. the content of the env file would hold some text and the system would then use that text with the .env extension to load that specific file. after removing all that all the above suggestions work. I've marked Joe's answer as correct as it is technically correct but not the resolution for this.
If anyone else comes across a similar issue, for me in the
bootstrapapp.phpfile there was an include to anenvironment.phpfile in the same folder. removing this include solved the issue and returned it back to expected outputs.The correct syntax to obtain from config file is the following:
instead of
Config::get('app.APP_ENV'), where
apprefers to the file itself:configapp.phpand the next stringenvrefers to the key array on that file.If you want to read directly from the env variables, the syntax is:
I would check for unclosed quotes in the .env file that may be invalidating it. Also, when the value is a single word, you don’t need to enclose it in quotes.
works just fine.