neonxp/dotenv

Advanced loading and parsing .env file in PHP-7

Dotenv

, _(*1)

What is it?

Small library, that automaticaly loads .env (or any other) file to applications environment., _(*2)

Why not XXX?

Because this library is pretty simple, without external dependencies and highly customizable., _(*3)

Installation

composer require neonxp/dotenv

Usage

Basic usage:, _(*4)

use NeonXP\Dotenv\Dotenv;

$dotenv = new Dotenv();
$dotenv->load(); // You can specify file to load at first argument

print $dotenv->get('KEY', 'default') . PHP_EOL;
print $dotenv['KEY'] . PHP_EOL;
foreach ($dotenv as $key => $value) {
    print "$key = $value" . PHP_EOL;
}

.env file syntax

Here examples of syntax:, _(*5)

# This is a comment

# Empty lines also ignored
export KEY1=VALUE1
KEY2 = VALUE2 # Inline comment
KEY3 = 'VALUE3 # This is not comment'
KEY4 = "VALUE4 # And this value too"
KEY5 = ${KEY1} -> ${KEY2} # Compilled from another variables

and we will get:, _(*6)

[
    'KEY1' => 'VALUE1',
    'KEY2' => 'VALUE2',
    'KEY3' => 'VALUE3 # This is not comment',
    'KEY4' => 'VALUE4 # And this value too',
    'KEY5' => 'VALUE1 -> VALUE2',
]