knorkfork/load-environment

Load environment variables from .env file

v1.0.0 2025-02-21 23:09 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.2

Requires (Dev)

• friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer: ^3.69
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.1
• phpunit/phpunit: ^12.0

MIT

• Luka Knezic

README

Load environment

Load environment variables from .env (and .env.local) into PHP.

Installation

composer require knorkfork/load-environment

Usage

Assuming .env file and .php file are in the same folder, you can load environment variables like this:

use KnorkFork\LoadEnvironment\Environment;

Environment::load(__DIR__ . '/.env');

echo Environment::getStringEnv('APP_ENV');

By default it will also try to load .env.local file if it exists.

All variables set in .env.local will overwrite variables from .env.

If you want to load from custom env file, pass it via second argument.

use KnorkFork\LoadEnvironment\Environment;

Environment::load(__DIR__ . '/.env', ['custom']);

// APP_ENV from .env will be overwritten by APP_ENV from .env.custom
echo Environment::getStringEnv('APP_ENV');

Environment variables can also be accessed without Environment class.

use KnorkFork\LoadEnvironment\Environment;

Environment::load(__DIR__ . '/.env');

echo getenv('APP_ENV');