You can parse an .env file as an .ini with PHP - but there's a catch
You can parse an .env file as an .ini with PHP - but there's a catch
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You can parse an .env file as an .ini with PHP - but there's a catch
The humble .env file is a useful and low-tech way of storing persistent environment variables. Drop the file on your server and let your PHP scripts consume it with glee. But consume it how? There ar...
The humble .env file is a useful and low-tech way of storing persistent environment variables. Drop the file on your server and let your PHP scripts consume it with glee. But consume it how? There are lots of excellent parsing libraries for PHP. But isn't there a simpler way? Yes! You can use PHP's parse_ini_file() function and it works. But… .env and .ini have subtly different behaviour which …