Laravel 4: how can I get the environment value?

Question

I know that I can access the environment value using the global $env variable, but is there the right way to get this value?

Answer 1

You're in luck - this was just added in Beta 4 - see here for details

Added App::environment method.

Edit: these are now a number of various ways to get the environment variable as of Laravel 4.1

App::environment() app()->environment() app()->env $GLOBALS['env'] // not recommended - but it is possible 

You can also specifically check for if the current environment is set to 'local'

App::isLocal() app()->isLocal() 

You can also specifically check for if the current environment is set to 'testing'

App::runningUnitTests() app()->runningUnitTests() 

Answer 2

You can also use app()->env.