Laravel - accessing .env variables

Question

I tried to get the environment variable from the .env in my root with

Route::get('/test', function () {
    return "value is". getenv('APP_ENV');
});

and

Route::get('/test', function () {
    return "it is". env('APP_ENV');
});

It is in .env

APP_NAME=Laravel
APP_ENV=local

How can I get access to it?

Answer 1

Route::get('/test', function () {
    return "it is".config('app.name');
});

Answer 2

With Laravel, you should avoid environmental variables outside of your configuration files.

In your config files, you can use environmental variables, example in config/app.php:

'env' => env('APP_ENV', 'production'),

Then you can access this using the config helper: config('app.env').

This allows you to cache your configuration and still access these values, since env('APP_ENV') will no longer work once your config is cached.

Answer 3

use env('ENVKEY') Don't forget to clear cache sometime it cause because of cache.

php artisan config:clear php artisan cache:clear composer dump-autoload

Formore info look at the doc

Answer 4

just run this commands in cmd.

php artisan config:cache

then

php artisan config:clear

then

php artisan cache:clear

Answer 5

As per the Laravel Documentation on Environment Configuration,

All of the variables listed in this file will be loaded into the $_ENV PHP super-global when your application receives a request. You may use the env helper to retrieve values from these variables.

So, it is possible to access the variable as

$_ENV['envKey'];

Answer 6

laravel provides a global helper function for this kind of task

$val = config('app.something');

you can also set new values with the following method

config(['app.something' => 'cat']);

reference

for your particular task it would be

$val = config('app.env');

or to determine the env globally

$environment = App::environment();

i hope this helps, have a nice one!

Answer 7

 App::environment()

try this please