Get environment value in controller

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In my  env file I have the following   IMAP HOSTNAME TEST imap gmail com IMAP USERNAME TEST myemail gmail com IMAP PASSWORD TEST mypw   Now I would like to use them in my controller  I ve tried this  but without any result    hostname   config  IMAP HOSTNAME TEST      The  hostname variable is equal to null  How can I use these configuration variables in my controller

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It Doesn t work in Laravel 5 3  if you want to try to access the value from the controller like below  It always returns null  lt  php       value   env  MY VALUE    default value     SOLUTION  Rather  you need to create a file in the configuration folder  say values php and then write the code like below File values php  lt  php      return             myvalue    gt  env  MY VALUE  null               Add other values as you wish  Then access the value in your controller with the following code  lt  php       value    Config  get  values myvalue    Where  quot values quot  is the filename followed by the key  quot myvalue quot

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As  Rajib pointed out  You can t access your env variables using config  myVariable    You have to add the variable to  env file first  Add the variable to some config file in config directory  I usually add to config app php Once done  will access them like Config  get  fileWhichContainsVariable Variable    using the Config Facade  Probably You will have to clear config cache using php artisan config clear AND you will also have to restart server

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It s a better idea to put your configuration variables in a configuration  file   In your case  I would suggest putting your variables in config mail php like    imap hostname    gt  env  IMAP HOSTNAME TEST    imap gmail com     And refer to them by  config  mail imap hostname     It first tries to get the configuration variable value in the  env file and if it couldn t find the variable value in the  env file  it will get the variable value from file config mail php

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You can use with this format  tested on Laravel 5 5   In my case I used it for gettting the data of database connections and use on Controller    User   env  DB USERNAMEchild        Pass   env  DB PASSWORDchild         The second parameter can be null  or set any default in case of DB USERNAMEchild is null   Your  env file can be the same   DB HOST localhost DB DATABASE FATHERBD DB USERNAME root DB PASSWORD password  DB DATABASEchild ZTEST DB USERNAMEchild root DB PASSWORDchild passwordofchild

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In the book of Matt Stauffer he suggest to create an array in your config app php to add the variable and then anywhere you reference to it with   myvariable   new Namearray config  fileWhichContainsVariable array ConfigKeyVariable     Have try this solution  is good

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In config app php file make a instance of env variable like  name    gt  env  APP NAME    Laravel    amp  In your controller call it like config  app name   Run following commands php artisan config cache php artisan cache clear if it is not working

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You can not access the environment variable like this   Inside the  env file you write  IMAP HOSTNAME TEST imap gmail com     I am okay with this   Next  inside the config folder there is a file  mail php  You may use this file to code  As you are working with mail functionality  You might use another file as well   return            other declarations  imap hostname test    gt  env  IMAP HOSTNAME TEST       You are hiding the value inside the configuration as well       You can call the variable from a controller using  config   Whatever file you are using inside config folder  You need to use that file name  without extension           variable name         In the current case you can call the variable as follows    hostname   config  mail imap hostname test      Since you declare the variable inside mail php and the variable name is imap hostname test  you need to call it like this  If you declare this variable inside app php then you should call   hostname   config  app imap hostname test

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Try it with    lt  php  hostname   env  IMAP HOSTNAME TEST    somedefaultvalue      gt

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In Controller   hostname     ENV  IMAP HOSTNAME TEST     or   hostname   env  IMAP HOSTNAME TEST      In blade view      ENV  IMAP HOSTNAME TEST

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All of the variables listed in   env file will be loaded into the   ENV PHP super-global when your application receives a request  Check out the Laravel configuration page     ENV  yourkeyhere

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To simplify  Only configuration files can access environment variables - and then pass them on  Step 1   Add your variable to your  env file  for example  EXAMPLE URL  quot http   google com quot   Step 2   Create a new file inside of the config folder  with any name  for example  config example php  Step 3   Inside of this new file  I add an array being returned  containing that environment variable   lt  php return      url    gt  env  EXAMPLE URL       Step 4   Because I named it  quot example quot   my configuration  namespace  is now example  So now  in my controller I can access this variable with   url    config  example url     Tip - if you add use Config  at the top of your controller  you don t need the backslash  which designates the root namespace   For example  namespace App Http Controllers  use Config     Added this line  class ExampleController extends Controller       public function url             return config  example url             Finally  commit the changes  php artisan config cache  --- IMPORTANT --- Remember to enter php artisan config cache into the console once you have created your example php file  Configuration files and variables are cached  so if you make changes you need to flush that cache - the same applies to the  env file being changed   added to

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