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alexwijn/laravel-database-url
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Automatically parse and load the DATABASE\_URL

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Laravel Database URL
--------------------

[](#laravel-database-url)

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This package will provide automatically parse and configure you Laravel application to use the custom environment variables that commonly used for services like Heroku and Docker.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Require this package with composer.

```
composer require alexwijn/laravel-database-url
```

Laravel 5.5 uses Package Auto-Discovery, so doesn't require you to manually add the ServiceProvider.

### Laravel 5.5+:

[](#laravel-55)

If you don't use auto-discovery, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php

```
Alexwijn\DatabaseUrl\ServiceProvider::class,
```

Supported environment variables
-------------------------------

[](#supported-environment-variables)

At the moment we support the following configurations:

- *DATABASE\_URL* - Eg. mysql://username:password@localhost/database
- *DATABASE\_URL* - Eg. mariadb://username:password@localhost/database
- *DATABASE\_URL* - Eg. postgres://username:password@localhost/database
- *REDIS\_URL* - Eg. redis://redis:password@localhost/0
- *ELASTICSEARCH\_URL* - Eg. tcp://localhost:9200

###  Health Score

22

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Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity36

Early-stage or recently created project

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Top contributor holds 50% of commits — single point of failure

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