How do I use values from .env in Laravel 5.6

Question

Hi ?I am just learning to use Laravel framework and having trouble understanding how to use the values stored in the .env file. I have created a template application using artisan and it works. In the default welcome blade is the code

<div class="title m-b-md">
     Laravel <--/*this text needs to change */
</div>

In the file .env is the lines:

APP_NAME=SomeAppName
APP_ENV=local
APP_KEY=base64:zUm/qFNKTV4gRw6bFcIdOfm5rTzrS8JP1bj2KIz8Rl4=
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_URL=http://localhost

How do i reference the .env file so that the welcome page shows the value of APP_NAME ("SomeAppName") instead of "Laravel"?

p.s have tried {{ getenv('APP_NAME') }} and {{ config('app.name', 'SomeAppName') }} but former gives blank and latter still prints out "Laravel"

Answer 1

It seems both of @stan & @yash above answers are partially correct.

Please Follow below links:

1. https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/printing-env-variables-in-view
2. Accessing Laravel .env variables in blade

According to above what you need to do is as below

<div class="title m-b-md">
      {{ env('APP_NAME') }}
</div>

Then from console you need to clear cache.

php artisan config:clear
php artisan cache:clear
composer dump-autoload

This should work for you.

Answer 2

<div class="title m-b-md">
     {{ env('APP_NAME') }}
</div>

If your running local environment server. Firstly you restart your local environment server and try this.

And if you enabled config cache than run the commands below

php artisan config:clear

php artisan cache:clear

Answer 3

In Blade you could do something like:

{{ env('APP_URL')

In a controller or PHP Class:

env('APP_URL')