Web server options for environment variables

[symfonyaml]

Goal:
Making some improvements to be able to use Panther as standalone (without Symfony and without PHPUnit).

Feature:
I would like to send custom environment variables to the created web server like:

static::createPantherClient([
    'environmentVariables' => ['CUSTOM_ENV' => 'foo'],
]);

[ThomasTr]

Helps me to execute different test_cases via custom kernel, would like to see this in next release @dunglas 👍

[dunglas]

I don't understand where environmentVariables is used?

[ThomasTr]

I for myself have different test cases, with which I map different test scenarios, e.g. to mock different external API's, load different configs.

$this->options['environmentVariables']['TEST_CASE'] = $testCase;

Then i can load the kernel with the specific environment:

$kernel = new Kernel($_SERVER['TEST_CASE'], 'config.yaml', $_SERVER['APP_ENV'], (bool) $_SERVER['APP_DEBUG']);

[arderyp]

I am not sure how this works. Here is my code:

// in my panther test
$this->client = static::createPantherClient([
    'environmentVariables' => [
        "CUSTOM_PATHER_VAR" => "this is a test",
    ],
]);

// in my index.php
echo $_SERVER["CUSTOM_PATHER_VAR"];
echo getenv("CUSTOM_PATHER_VAR");

// in my Kernel.php
echo $_SERVER["CUSTOM_PATHER_VAR"];
echo getenv("CUSTOM_PATHER_VAR");

I am not seeing my custom var ("this is a test") make it into index.php or Kernel.php when crawling to a page using the Panther client instantiation above. Am I missing something?

@ThomasTr suggests it should be available in $_SERVER, which makes sense, as that's how APP_ENV and other env vars are made available, but I'm not finding that to be the case.

Or was this never merged @dunglas?

EDIT: answers to my questions starting here: #202 (comment)