John Davidson

Message:

I have set up a .env file to hold my environmental variables. If I var_dump($_ENV), it shows all of my key pairs just as they are in my .env file so I know that PHP is seeing the environmental variables correctly. But if I echo out a getenv of one of the environmental variables, I get an empty string.

$port = $_ENV["DATABASE_PORT"];

echo $port  // echos out 3306

This displays the correct port of 3306

$port = getenv("DATABASE_PORT");

echo $port  // echos out an empty string

This displays nothing, just an empty string

Any thoughts as to why the $_ENV is getting populated, but getenv won't pull a value?

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My Answer:
't return any value because the environment variable "Won" is not set in the current environment.