Get All ENV variables in Laravel

Question

Laravel has a .env file that contains various variables. Is there a way to get all the variables in one line of PHP code? I don't want to write

echo env('APP_DEBUG')
echo env('APP_URL')
etc...

I have tried

env("*")
env("*")

but none works.

Hjerpe

Do you want all values from the .env file or all environment variables? And why would you want this? – Cheesy

I don't think there's an in-built mechanism for this. You may write your own code to read the file though. – Ballew

@Cheesy because we have a lot of stuff in there aside from the default Laravel ENV variables. we will restrict displaying the password or secret variables. – Hjerpe

@Ballew that was my first hunch but .env file is outside the public folder in laravel. – Hjerpe

You can read any file on your server with PHP that the web server user has access to. – Cheesy

Answer 1

This should work:

$_ENV; // gives all env variables.

To get a single env variable:

$_ENV['VARIABLE'];

Polynesia

Wait this isn't for .env variables for Laravel, this is for PHP isn't it? OP was asking about retrieving variables from the .env file. – Rinaldo

Nope @amir, laravel will load the . env file so you can access its variables on $_ENV you can try that on your local to see if thats working ( it is working btw ) – Serapis

Does depend on the PHP ini setup what var is loading the Laravel .envs https://mcmap.net/q/82607/-why-is-my-_env-empty – Decade

Answer 2

The only safe way for reading all env() attributes is to use Dotenv directly :

$env = Dotenv\Dotenv::createArrayBacked(base_path())->load()

This method is usable on every environment : cli, dispatched jobs, without proper web server and even if php.ini is ignoring env.

Menorah

For older versions (in 5.8 at least): $env = \Dotenv\Dotenv::create(base_path())->load(); – Perfumery

Note that because this method circumvents Laravel's own implementation, there is no guarantee that the 'FOO' key in this output will match env('FOO'). For example, if the configuration is cached via php artisan config:cache, calls to the env() helper may return values that differ from those output via this command. Just a heads-up. – Undry

Answer 3

You can do the following:-

php artisan tinker

$_ENV

Drupelet