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Package which enables to load environment variables from multiple .env files at multiple locations

This package is a work that derived from package published by vlucas/phpdotenv with some additional functionality such as handling multiple .env files and setting up variables using instance of the class.

Installation

Install package using composer

composer require sebastiansulinski/dotenv

Usage instructions

To use the plugin you'll need to have at least one .env file i.e.

// .env

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_NAME=test
DB_USER=user
DB_PASS=password

You load all your .env files when instantiating the SSD\DotEnv\DotEnv object.

require "vendor/autoload.php";

use SSD\DotEnv\DotEnv;

$dotEnv = new DotEnv(__DIR__ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '.env');

You can pass a single .env file, path to a directory with .env.* files or multiple paths / directories

$dotEnv = new DotEnv(__DIR__ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '.env');
$dotEnv = new DotEnv(__DIR__);
$dotEnv = new DotEnv(
    __DIR__
    'another/path',
    'another/file/.env'
);

Loading variables

To load process the variables there are two methods load() and overload().

The load() method will only set the variables that do not already exist, while overload() will set them all - overwriting any existing ones.

$dotEnv = new DotEnv(__DIR__);

// will only set variables
// that are not already set
$dotEnv->load();

$dotEnv = new DotEnv(__DIR__);

// will set all variables from the files
// overwriting any duplicates
$dotEnv->overload();

Required variables

To ensure that your system has all necessary variables available you can use required() method, which takes either a single variable name or an array of required variables.

$dotEnv = new DotEnv(__DIR__);

// will only set variables
// that are not already set
$dotEnv->load();

// either a single variable
$dotEnv->required('DB_HOST');

$dotEnv = new DotEnv(__DIR__);

// will only set variables
// that are not already set
$dotEnv->load();

// or an array of variables
$dotEnv->required([
    'DB_HOST',
    'DB_NAME',
    'DB_USER',
    'DB_PASS'
]);

If any of the required variables does not exist in any of the .env.*files - system will throw a RuntimeException.

Returning contents of .env file(s) as array

Use toArray() method to fetch the contents of the .env file(s), with or without setting up the environment variables.

$dotEnv = new DotEnv(__DIR__);

// will not set environment variables
$variables = $dotEnv->toArray();

var_dump($variables);

// ['DB_HOST' => '127.0.0.1', 'DB_NAME' => 'blog', ...]


// will set environment variables using load() method
$variables = $dotEnv->toArray(DotEnv::LOAD);

var_dump($variables);

// ['DB_HOST' => '127.0.0.1', 'DB_NAME' => 'blog', ...]


// will set environment variables using overload() method
$variables = $dotEnv->toArray(DotEnv::OVERLOAD);

var_dump($variables);

// ['DB_HOST' => '127.0.0.1', 'DB_NAME' => 'blog', ...]

Obtaining value stored in the variable

You can use a static get() method on the DotEnv object to retrieve the value stored in a given environment variable.

DotEnv::get('DB_HOST');

When you associate the string true, false with the variables within your .env file, they will automatically be converted to boolean true / false when using DotEnv::get. The same applies to the variable with null string, which will return null value.

If you specify a variable without any value associated (MY_VARIABLE=) - it will return an empty string ''.

You can provide a second argument to the get() method, which will be returned if variable was not found. The default value can be of a scalar or a Closure type.

DotEnv::get('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

DotEnv::get('DB_HOST', function() {

    return DotEnv::get('ENVIRONMENT') == 'live' ? 'localhost' : 127.0.0.1;

});

Checking if exists and equals

You can check if variable exists by using has() and whether it stores a given value by using is() methods.

DotEnv::has('NON_EXISTENT_VARIABLE');
// false

DotEnv::is('ENVIRONMENT', 'live')
// true / false

Setting variables

$dotEnv = new DotEnv(__DIR__);
$dotEnv->load();
$dotEnv->set('CUSTOM_VARIABLE', 123);
$dotEnv->required('CUSTOM_VARIABLE');

Variable referencing

If there is a variable that you'd like to inherit the value of you can use its name wrapped within the ${..} i.e.

MAIL_SMTP=true
MAIL_USER=mail@mail.com
MAIL_PASS=password
MAIL_PORT=587

MAIL_API_KEY=${MAIL_PASS}