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duality_

Reputation: 18756

Laravel, how to get the environment value?

I know that I can access the environment value using the global $env variable, but is there the right way to get this value?

Upvotes: 77

Views: 70400

Answers (3)

Laurence
Laurence

Reputation: 60040

You're in luck - this was just added in Beta 4 - see here for details

Added App::environment method.

Edit: these are now a number of various ways to get the environment variable as of Laravel 4.1

App::environment()
app()->environment()
app()->env
$GLOBALS['env'] // not recommended - but it is possible

You can also specifically check for if the current environment is set to 'local'

App::isLocal()
app()->isLocal()

...or 'production'

App::isProduction()
app()->isProduction()

You can also specifically check for if the current environment is set to 'testing'

App::runningUnitTests()
app()->runningUnitTests()

Upvotes: 123

kfriend
kfriend

Reputation: 2614

You can also use app()->env.

Upvotes: 28

Justin
Justin

Reputation: 27301

In Laravel 4 and 5, the Laravel official docs suggest using:

$environment = App::environment();

You may also pass arguments to the environment method to check if the environment matches a given value:

if (App::environment('local'))
{
    // The environment is local
}

if (App::environment('local', 'staging'))
{
    // The environment is either local OR staging...
}

Upvotes: 28

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