php-dotenv | dotenv file loader for PHP

php-dotenv is a PHP library. php-dotenv has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

When developing and deploying your applications you are typically interacting with various environments - production and development for instance. These environments both execute your code, but will do so using different credentials. You may also wish to distribute your application to developers without accidentally giving them access to important external services. Simple examples include authentication keys to your email provider or database connection credentials. You would never want to accidentally send testing emails to all your users, or run a DROP TABLE statement against production because you ran your unit tests. How do you tackle these differing credentials? The php-dotenv helps solve this issue by allowing you to configure your environments in a universal fashion, making it easy to safely switch between environments, as well as share those environments with multiple projects/languages. Need more reasons? Check out the twelve-factor app docs on configuration.