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jhodgson4
jhodgson4

Reputation: 1656

Why is my config item not populating from my getenv() entry in codeigniter?

I am using phpdotenv with Codeigniter. Codeigniter's environment setup doesn't quite work for this project.

I'm trying to set this in my config.php file:

$config['site_id'] = getenv('APP_ID');

phpdotenv is being loaded via the pre_system hook and getenv('APP_ID') is available throughout the app. I've also checked in the core and this fires well before loading config items.

$hook['pre_system'] = function() {
 $dotenv = new Dotenv\Dotenv(APPPATH);
 $dotenv->load();
};

The value of $this-config->item('site_id') is always NULL

Any advice as to why this is happening would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5201

Answers (2)

beeThree
beeThree

Reputation: 154

As @jhodgson4 stated, CodeIgniter loads the configured constants first during the bootstrap of the framework (core/CodeIgniter.php). You can require and intialize dotenv at the bottom of your index.php file, before CodeIgniter.php is loaded. This should allow you to use getenv in any of your config files.

// ...at the bottom of index.php
require APPPATH . 'vendor/autoload.php'; // composer installing into application/vendor

// Use FCPATH If your .env is in the same directory as index.php
// Use APPATH If your .env is in your application/ directory
$dotenv = Dotenv\Dotenv::createMutable(APPATH);
$dotenv->load();

/*
 * --------------------------------------------------------------------
 * LOAD THE BOOTSTRAP FILE
 * --------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * And away we go...
 */
require_once BASEPATH . 'core/CodeIgniter.php';

Upvotes: 1

Hammour Ihab
Hammour Ihab

Reputation: 1

Oh, you would basically just do this : 

require APPPATH . 'vendor/autoload.php';
  $dotenv = new Dotenv\Dotenv(BASEPATH . '../');
  $dotenv->load();

Upvotes: 0

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