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neonxp/dotenv
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Advanced loading and parsing .env file in PHP-7

0.0.1(8y ago)010MITPHPPHP >=7.0

Since Jan 19Pushed 8y ago1 watchersCompare

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Dotenv
======

[](#dotenv)

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What is it?
-----------

[](#what-is-it)

Small library, that automaticaly loads `.env` (or any other) file to applications environment.

Why not XXX?
------------

[](#why-not-xxx)

Because this library is pretty simple, without external dependencies and highly customizable.

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require neonxp/dotenv

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Basic usage:

```
use NeonXP\Dotenv\Dotenv;

$dotenv = new Dotenv();
$dotenv->load(); // You can specify file to load at first argument

print $dotenv->get('KEY', 'default') . PHP_EOL;
print $dotenv['KEY'] . PHP_EOL;
foreach ($dotenv as $key => $value) {
    print "$key = $value" . PHP_EOL;
}
```

.env file syntax
----------------

[](#env-file-syntax)

Here examples of syntax:

```
# This is a comment

# Empty lines also ignored
export KEY1=VALUE1
KEY2 = VALUE2 # Inline comment
KEY3 = 'VALUE3 # This is not comment'
KEY4 = "VALUE4 # And this value too"
KEY5 = ${KEY1} -> ${KEY2} # Compilled from another variables

```

and we will get:

```
[
    'KEY1' => 'VALUE1',
    'KEY2' => 'VALUE2',
    'KEY3' => 'VALUE3 # This is not comment',
    'KEY4' => 'VALUE4 # And this value too',
    'KEY5' => 'VALUE1 -> VALUE2',
]
```

###  Health Score

22

—

LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community4

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3038d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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