I have tried a few different ways to do this, but if I do env("APP_ENV") I get the entires contents of the env file instead of the APP_ENV value
I know this is bad practice but I also get the same results when using Config
I have tried artisan cache:clear and artisan config:clear and still the same results.
// dd(Config::get('env')); // this does the same
dd(Config::get('app.APP_ENV'), Config::get('app.EMAILMODE'), env("APP_ENV"));
returns
"""
APP_NAME=Laravel
APP_ENV="local"
APP_KEY=*removed*
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_URL=*removed*
LOG_CHANNEL=stack
LOG_DEPRECATIONS_CHANNEL=null
LOG_LEVEL=debug
DB_CONNECTION=sqlsrv
DB_HOST=*removed*
DB_PORT=1433
DB_DATABASE=*removed*
DB_USERNAME=*removed*
DB_PASSWORD=*removed*
DB_ENCRYPT=true
DB_TRUST_SERVER_CERTIFICATE=true
""" // app/Http/Controllers/SecurityScanController.php:32
"testing" // app/Http/Controllers/SecurityScanController.php:32
"""
APP_NAME=Laravel
APP_ENV="local"
APP_KEY=*removed*
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_URL=*removed*
LOG_CHANNEL=stack
LOG_DEPRECATIONS_CHANNEL=null
LOG_LEVEL=debug
DB_CONNECTION=sqlsrv
DB_HOST=*removed*
DB_PORT=1433
DB_DATABASE=*removed*
DB_USERNAME=*removed*
DB_PASSWORD=*removed*
DB_ENCRYPT=true
DB_TRUST_SERVER_CERTIFICATE=true
""" // app/Http/Controllers/SecurityScanController.php:32
The correct syntax to obtain from config file is the following:
config('app.env')
instead of Config::get('app.APP_ENV')
, where app refers to the file itself: config\app.php and the next string env refers to the key array on that file.
If you want to read directly from the env variables, the syntax is:
env('APP_ENV')
I would check for unclosed quotes in the .env file that may be invalidating it. Also, when the value is a single word, you don't need to enclose it in quotes.
APP_ENV=local
works just fine.