PHP Packages - Dotenv manage PHP application configuration in .env files

Dotenv allows you to put your PHP applications configuration into a .env file and it will load the configuration into environment variables for you.
My scratchpad file: gitlab.com/pen...
Dotenv: github.com/vlu...

[@med3060]

thank you so much , very helpful introduction.

[@maxmaaen9070]

Thanks for helping to pass my practical course #studyIT

[@DragonnSteve]

Nice tutorial. Thank you for your work😉

[@PenguinDigital]

No problem, I’m glad you found it useful

[@NedumEze]

Thank you very much sir. This is a handful!
Could you please walk us through how to handle this in a Production or live server?
That is, the phpdotenv library and the Composer interactions in a liveserver. Truly sorry for the inconvenience!

[@srilankateaandspice5846]

Thank you

[@basilemartin1756]

need to use 'createUnsafeImmutable' to use getenv and putenv now

[@PenguinDigital]

Thank you for the update

[@Kal-el1231]

Thanks man you saved me

[@zomboy-exe3440]

tnx

[@ahmedhabibglai6880]

Fatal error: Trait 'Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Kernel\MicroKernelTrait' not found in C:\Users\user\Desktop\myshop\src\Kernel.php on line 12
Do you have any idea about this error, i've been stuck in this error for a day, could you help me please?

[@judeleon8485]

You should have zoomed in a little more, so one can see your code on the screen.

[@goodluckoriuwa1669]

The texts are too small

[@rdz1319]

"Class 'Dotenv\Dotenv' not found" help me please :(

[@PenguinDigital]

The error is pretty clear, its saying it cant find the class. Have you installed it? If you have installed it are you sure the autoloader knows about the package? composer dump-autoload

[@davidofug]

Thank you. How do I take the .env to production server. Assuming the production server is a shared host environment on Cpanel or something like that.

[@PenguinDigital]

Sorry I don't have much experience with cPanel. I assume you have some way to upload your standard PHP files? Using something like SSH or SFTP? You would simply upload your .env file using one of those.

[@davidofug]

@@PenguinDigital so if I upload .env file without uploading composer and vendor folder, will it work? I'm wondering why at development we need the composer and the phpdotenv library.

[@PenguinDigital]

No it needs the vendor folder also. When you're deploying to a server you need to run all the same commands you did during development on your live server.

[@davidofug]

@@PenguinDigital its unfortunate on shared hosting environments you don't get to run commands.
Fortunately, made a WordPress plugin with Composer features like autoload, psr-4, classmaps, files maps etc. Uploaded the entire directory including vender, composer.json etc.
The plugin worked like expected, this only gives me courage.
Thank you for introducing me to .env

[@PenguinDigital]

@@davidofug Sorry I've not used shared hosting for over 10 years. I assume they are using cPanel for the admin panel? If so you can follow this tutorial for getting .ssh access www.plothost.com/kb/generate-private-public-key-cpanel-ssh-access/