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wpscholar/phpdotenv
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Loads environmental variables from a .env file.

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PHP dotenv
==========

[](#php-dotenv)

A `.env` file parsing and loading library for PHP.

Automatically loads variables into a number of contexts:

- `getenv()` (default)
- `$_ENV` (default)
- `$_SERVER` (default)
- `apache_getenv` (optional)
- PHP constants (optional)
- Global variables (optional)
- A custom config array (optional)

Why?
----

[](#why)

**You should never store sensitive credentials in your code.** Storing [configuration in the environment](http://www.12factor.net/config) is one of the tenets of a [twelve-factor app](http://www.12factor.net/). Anything that is likely to change between deployment environments – such as database credentials or credentials for 3rd party services – should be extracted from the code into environment variables.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 5.4

Installation
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[](#installation)

Using [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/), run `composer require wpscholar/phpdotenv`.

Make sure you have a line in your code to handle autoloading:

```