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Login SubscribeThe $debug and $environment variables are hardcoded in index.php. So if we deploy this, we'll either have a web debug toolbar on production, or we'll need to manually modify this file to set $debug to false. Both situations stink.
To help, we'll install a new library: composer require vlucas/phpdotenv:
composer require vlucas/phpdotenv
While we're waiting, Google for that library and find its documentation.
This is a popular library these days, and I really like it too. It allows you to have a .env file at the root of your project. It'll look something like this:
S3_BUCKET="dotenv"
SECRET_KEY="souper_seekret_key"This library reads these values and turns S3_BUCKET and SECRET_KEY into environment variables. Then, in our app, whenever we need some configuration - like whether we're in debug mode, the database password or the S3 bucket - we'll read from the environment variables. When you eventually deploy, you can set those variables in two different ways. First, you can have a .env file. Or second, you can set the variables via something like your web server configuration. Some platforms - like Heroku also have a way to set environment variables. The important point is that your app isn't bound to a configuration file: it's just reading environment variables, which is a pretty standard way of setting config.
The first things we want to set are the $env and $debug flags. Create a .env file and say SYMFONY_ENV=dev and SYMFONY_DEBUG=1:
| # basic setup | |
| SYMFONY_ENV=dev | |
| SYMFONY_DEBUG=1 |
Remove the old variables in index.php. Replace it with $dotenv = new DotEnv\DotEnv(). The argument is the directory where the .env file lives - it's actually up one directory from here. Then, call $dotenv->load():
| ... lines 1 - 9 | |
| // load the environmental variables | |
| $dotenv = new Dotenv\Dotenv(__DIR__.'/../'); | |
| $dotenv->load(); | |
| ... lines 13 - 26 |
At this point, those two flags have been set as environment variables. That means we can say $env = $_SERVER['SYMFONY_ENV']; and $debug = $_SERVER['SYMFONY_DEBUG'];:
| ... lines 1 - 9 | |
| // load the environmental variables | |
| $dotenv = new Dotenv\Dotenv(__DIR__.'/../'); | |
| $dotenv->load(); | |
| $env = $_SERVER['SYMFONY_ENV']; | |
| $debug = $_SERVER['SYMFONY_DEBUG']; | |
| ... lines 15 - 26 |
Go back and refresh the new setup - we should still see the toolbar. Yep, there it is. But now go back to .env and set SYMFONY_DEBUG to 0. Because of config.yml, this should turn the toolbar off. Change the environment to prod too - that's not being used anywhere yet, but it may avoid a temporary cache error:
| # basic setup | |
| SYMFONY_ENV=prod | |
| SYMFONY_DEBUG=0 |
Try it out: no web debug toolbar.
Add .env to the .gitignore file - this shouldn't be committed:
| ... lines 1 - 3 | |
| /.env |
But copy .env to .env.example - we will commit this so that new developers have something they can use as a guide.
Hey @mgrachev,
Thanks for sharing it with others. It might be useful for someone, or might be an overkill, depends on the project.
Cheers!
Do we need to use "vlucas/phpdotenv" or "symffony/dotenv" ? what's is the diffrence any way Is it possible to access to environments into a syfmony command ? I'm facing this error In EnvVarProcessor.php line 76 and I'm using symfony/dotenv
[Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Exception\EnvNotFoundException]
Environment variable not found
withh symfony3.4
Hey ahmedbhs!
First, this IS a bit of an old tutorial, as modern Symfony handles all of this for you :). But, the questions are still interesting! So, let's see:
Do we need to use "vlucas/phpdotenv" or "symfony/dotenv" ?
It basically doesn't matter. Symfony made their version specifically to be a bit less fancy and more shell-like. And then more features were added.
Is it possible to access to environments into a symfony command
Definitely! There are a few ways, the easiest (but maybe not cleanest) would be to grab it form $_SERVER - like $_SERVER['MY_VAR']. A more advanced way would be to inject it into your commands by leveraging the dependency injection container. And... it looks like maybe you are trying this?
I'm facing this error In EnvVarProcessor.php line 76 and I'm using symfony/dotenv
[Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Exception\EnvNotFoundException]
Environment variable not found
Can you show me your code? This would usually happen if you're configuring a service and using the %env(SOME_VAR)% format to access an environment var (which is good!). But, for some reason your environment variable isn't found. The logic that class uses is pretty simple - you can see it here: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/4eb10eaa2ce831880ed5f433ac418cadf64f5128/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/EnvVarProcessor.php#L70-L82
Share some code related to this if you can and I'm sure we can get it working :). Btw, using symfony/dotenv vs vlucas for this specific piece should not make a difference.
Cheers!
What is the difference? Which environment var used by Symfony 4.x?
SYMFONY_DEBUG vs APP_DEBUG and APP_ENV vs SYMFONY_ENV?
Yo Csaba B.!
Ah, great question! In practice, very little :). This tutorial pre-dates Symfony 4 and Symfony Flex by quite a long time. But some of its ideas were eventually used in Symfony 4, and this is one of them. In this tutorial, SYMFONY_ENV becomes the Symfony environment and in Symfony 4, APP_ENV becomes the Symfony environment. There are some subtle differences, but basically they do the same thing. The same is true for the DEBUG env vars, except that you don't *need* to define APP_DEBUG in Symfony 4 - if you don't define it, it's "guessed" from the APP_ENV value.
Cheers!
Thank you so much :)
I found some useful info too about env variables on Fabien's blog site. See the "Environment Variables" part here: http://fabien.potencier.org...
Hello
Anyone knows how to define the databse url ? Been trying out https://medium.com/@fabpot/...
but it doesn't seem to like the url my mysql also uses a password unlike the example.
Tried like this DATABASE_URL=mysql://newuser:Dorobanti71#$@127.0.0.1:3306/symfony?charset=utf8mb4
but am getting
DBALException in DriverManager.php line 259:
Malformed parameter "url".
in DriverManager.php line 259
at DriverManager::parseDatabaseUrl(array('url' => 'mysql://newuser:Dorobanti71#$@127.0.0.1:3306/symfony?charset=utf8mb4', 'host' => 'localhost', 'port' => null, 'user' => 'root', 'password' => null, 'driver' => 'pdo_mysql', 'driverOptions' => array(), 'defaultTableOptions' => array())) in DriverManager.php line 144
hmm weird it works with root user without password
seems the parseDatabaseUrl function https://github.com/doctrine... doesn't like that url string.
Yo Caim Astraea!
I don't know the answer specifically, but I do know that the DriverManager you linked to uses parse_url to break the URL into pieces. So that should, in theory, work fine. However, you might need to urlencode some of the special characters in your password. Check out the latest commit to that class, which add support for this: https://github.com/doctrine/dbal/commit/2dc419625299be3b91ced60ca4658fb95abb3722, and the PR behind it: https://github.com/doctrine/dbal/pull/2504
Cheers!
// composer.json
{
"require": {
"symfony/symfony": "^2.7", // v2.7.2
"sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "^3.0", // v3.0.9
"vlucas/phpdotenv": "^2.0", // v2.0.1
"symfony/monolog-bundle": "^2.7" // v2.7.1
}
}
Another useful tool - https://github.com/dotenv-l....
It’s a lightning-fast linter for .env files. Written in Rust.