getenv() and _ENV/_SERVER not in sync

[alcohol]

I'm trying to use a .env file together with a minimal Symfony project.

My problem is as follows:

• Default production php.ini has variables_order = 'GPCS' (note: no E)
• Default state of dotenv is immutable
• Values from .env are retrievable using getenv() (combined with immutable flag this means dotenv does nothing)
• Symfony does not use getenv() (looks at _ENV and _SERVER instead)
• None of my variables are registered in _ENV and _SERVER though

What would be the best solution here?
Currently I just always set the state to mutable before calling load().

See also https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/php.ini-production#L166
and http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/configuration/external_parameters.html#environment-variables

I know I can also change the ini setting, but I am not sure if that is a desirable approach.

Would it be acceptable for dotenv to sync any values from getenv() to _ENV/_SERVER if the former returns a value but the latter has no value for given key?

[kelvinj]

If you allow mutability do the variables loaded through phpdotenv show up in _ENV and _SERVER?

If so, I'd say continue doing what you're doing.

[alcohol]

Yes it does, but this means I could never overrule any of the values in .env using a server configured environment variable (like from nginx).

[kamazee]

@alcohol well, I believe this is supposed to replace nginx config as a storeage for environment variables and introduce a single storage for environemnt variable for both CLI and web application -- and if not completely replace, then at least pull common values out of it. Do you really need to keep a certain varibale in both nginx config and .env?

[alcohol]

There's no need, I was merely trying to find out if this is just the way it works or if there might be room for change. I suppose not. So I have nothing further to add :-)