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Ham1399
Ham1399

Reputation: 1

$config must be a string or an array

I am having errors when trying to access the subscription section on my app. It's something with the stripe API, this error occurs mostly when server caches are being cleared. I checked to clear caches, check config.app.php, payment controller, and all of that but not really understanding the source of this error!

Therefore I need someone's help, maybe someone who had this issue before. Here is the code line for that on vendor/stripe/stripe-php/lib/BaseStripeClient.php. Please suggest a solution for this error! I will be grateful:

if (\is_string($config)) {

        $config = ['api_key' => $config];

    } elseif (!\is_array($config)) {

        throw new \Stripe\Exception\InvalidArgumentException('$config must be a string or an array');

    }

Upvotes: -1

Views: 8015

Answers (7)

Mladen Janjetovic
Mladen Janjetovic

Reputation: 14634

In my case the problem was env() function that I called outside of the config files.

In documentation says that this can cause a problem with caching config files so the best way to go is to create those Stripe keys in config/services.php and get them there with env()

Upvotes: -1

John_Underscore
John_Underscore

Reputation: 41

Do not use env('STRIPE_SECRET_KEY').

If you declared your .env variable using env('STRIPE_SECRET_KEY') in your Controller, there is a better approach.

First, run php artisan config:cache. This command is used to cache the configuration files, but if you're looking for your Stripe keys, they won't be available in the bootstrap/cache/config.php file. That's why running config:cache won't solve the issue.

To properly set your variables in the configuration, you need to define them in services.php like this:

    'stripe' => [
        'secret_key' => env('STRIPE_SECRET_KEY'),
        // You can also add subscription IDs or product IDs here
        'subscriptions' => [
            'premium' => env('STRIPE_PREMIUM_SUB_ID'),
        ]
    ],

After making these changes, run php artisan config:cache to cache the new keys.

You can then access these keys in your Controllers using the following syntax:

config('services.stripe.secret_key')
config('services.stripe.subscriptions.premium')

By following this approach, you can properly configure and access your Stripe keys.

Upvotes: -1

Dhruv
Dhruv

Reputation: 2090

Just run these commands

php artisan cache:clear && php artisan route:clear && php artisan view:clear && composer clear-cache && composer dump-autoload && php artisan config:clear

And then

php artisan serve

Upvotes: -1

A. Atal
A. Atal

Reputation: 115

Your application is trying to access STRIPE_KEY from the .env file. But it fails to do so. Make sure you have a key and if run the following command: php artisan config:clear personally for me php artisan config:cache did not do the trick.

Upvotes: -1

Junaid Masood
Junaid Masood

Reputation: 748

make sure you have STRIPE_SECRET and STRIPE_KEY in your .env file

then you can just go with php artisan config:cache

if you have these in you .env file and error persists try removing the the files in bootstrap/cache i.e. rm -rf bootsrap/cache/*

Upvotes: 4

Tim Strawbridge
Tim Strawbridge

Reputation: 655

Your application is pulling a cached version of its config. Delete the bootstrap/cache/config.php file and refresh your browser and the error should go away.

I haven't had much luck with running php artisan cache:clear so I just remove the file manually or run the command below.

If you run the terminal command rm -rf bootstrap/cache/* in the root of the application it should remove all the files in the cache directory.

Upvotes: 0

Satlok
Satlok

Reputation: 1

php artisan config:cache run this command

Upvotes: -1

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