.env not working?

[mprandot]

Hello!

I set a APP_ENV in my .env created in project root, and this always returns null.

dd(env('APP_ENV'));

Someone can reproduce this?

[nunomaduro]

@mprandot The DotEnv PHP library is not included on Laravel Zero. Give me some minutes to think about this.

[mprandot]

Ah, no problem! I've found in a illuminate Helper class that has a env method, then i thinked "i can use it" 😄
I create a env.php in config folder, then i use config('env.<array_index_name>'), it's working now

[TNovalis]

I don't think we should be using a .env for Laravel-Zero. I would recommend just doing something like the following:
config/filesystems.php

return [
    'default' => env('FILESYSTEM_DRIVER', 'local'),
    'disks' => [
        'local' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root' => $_SERVER['HOME'].'/.your-project',
        ],
    ],
];

This way you can just use the Storage facade to put files where you need them. This is similar to how composer handles user configuration (albeit without the fancy facade of course.)