Load the .env(.local) file using Symfony's Dotenv

autoload.php

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 <?php
 
+// @TODO rename this file to bootstrap.php to better reflect its function
+
 use Doctrine\Common\Annotations\AnnotationRegistry;
+use Symfony\Component\Dotenv\Dotenv;
 
 // use vendor generated autoloader
 $loader = require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
@@ -10,4 +13,27 @@
 set_include_path(__DIR__ . '/vendor/spoon/library' . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path());
 require_once 'spoon/spoon.php';
 
+// load server variables
+if (!array_key_exists('FORK_ENV', $_SERVER)) {
+    $_SERVER['FORK_ENV'] = $_ENV['FORK_ENV'] ?? null;
+}
+
+if ('prod' !== $_SERVER['FORK_ENV']) {
+    if (!class_exists(Dotenv::class)) {
+        throw new RuntimeException('The "FORK_ENV" environment variable is not set to "prod". Please run "composer require symfony/dotenv" to load the ".env" files configuring the application.');
+    }
+    $dotenv = new Dotenv();
+
+    $dotenv->load(__DIR__ . '/.env');
+
+    // @TODO when updating to Fork 6, using Symfony 4, check if we still need to check the file's existence
+    if (file_exists(__DIR__ . '/.env.local')) {
+        $dotenv->load(__DIR__ . '/.env.local');
+    }
+}
+
+$_SERVER['FORK_ENV'] = $_ENV['FORK_ENV'] = $_SERVER['FORK_ENV'] ?: $_ENV['FORK_ENV'] ?: 'dev';
+$_SERVER['FORK_DEBUG'] = $_SERVER['FORK_DEBUG'] ?? $_ENV['FORK_DEBUG'] ?? 'prod' !== $_SERVER['FORK_ENV'];
+$_SERVER['FORK_DEBUG'] = $_ENV['FORK_DEBUG'] = (int) $_SERVER['FORK_DEBUG'] || filter_var($_SERVER['FORK_DEBUG'], FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN) ? '1' : '0';
+
 return $loader;