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Laravel 5 - env() always returns null

I try to find out why my env() helper always returns null. This causes trouble especially in app.php file, where are env() helpers widely used by default. Perhaps any mysterious server setting?

My env file:

APP_ENV=production APP_KEY=base64:mymagickey= APP_DEBUG=false APP_LOG_LEVEL=info APP_URL=http://www.example.com  etc... 

EDIT - I tried following:

php artisan cache:clear php artisan view:clear php artisan config:cache 

and ofcourse, i am using env helper like this: env('APP_ENV')

But still no success. The wierd part is, that $_ENV php variable contains every single variable from .env file.

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Fusion Avatar asked Apr 06 '17 00:04

Fusion


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env(...) function will not work after you cached the config. (starting from laravel 5.2 till current 5.7)

The Laravel documentation says

If you are using the config:cache command during deployment, you must make sure that you are only calling the env function from within your configuration files, and not from anywhere else in your application.

So the correct answer would be to

If you are calling env from within your application, it is strongly recommended you add proper configuration values to your configuration files and call env from that location instead, allowing you to convert your env calls to config calls.

And I quoted it from the same documentation

But for a quick fix this will do:

php artisan config:clear

And now it should be clear why, when you tried config:cache, it did not help, even though it clears the config prior to caching.

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Yevgeniy Afanasyev Avatar answered Sep 20 '22 13:09

Yevgeniy Afanasyev


Hope this command will save you

php artisan config:clear

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sh6210 Avatar answered Sep 17 '22 13:09

sh6210