Laravel does not read env variables

Question

Did anyone has issues with env variables? For some reason, helper env('VARIABLE') returns null every time I use it. It happened very unexpectedly and I dont really know the reason. Restarting the apache/IDE/computer does not work.

Answer 1

Run those of command

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

Now try to read

$value = env('VARIABLE_NAME'); 

if not working till now then,

Try another syntax to read env variable.

$value=getenv('VARIABLE_NAME');