Should I commit app/config file to git repository

posted 10 years ago

Last updated 2 years ago.

replied 10 years ago

I always commit all of my configuration files to my repository. Rather than storing sensitive information such as the database connection info in the config files, I use environment variables to store that information. My config/database.php ends up looking like this:

	'mysql' => array(
		'driver'    => 'mysql',
		'host'      => 'localhost',
		'database'  => getenv('DB_NAME'),
		'username'  => getenv('DB_USER'),
		'password'  => getenv('DB_PASS'),
		'charset'   => 'utf8',
		'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
		'prefix'    => '',
	),

Last updated 2 years ago.

sitesense

replied 10 years ago

Further reading:

https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv

Laravel 5 currently uses this.

Last updated 2 years ago.

pbrzoski

replied 10 years ago

I currently using laravel 4.2

Last updated 2 years ago.

ffsantos92

replied 10 years ago

Solution

Hi pbrzoski,

But you can setup this easily in 4.2:

Create .env.local.php on main directory with this content:

<? php
return [
  'DB_HOST' => 'localhost',
  'DB_UNSERNAME' => 'your_username',
  'DB_PASSWORD' => 'your_password',
  'DB_NAME' => 'your_dbname'
];

Last updated 2 years ago.

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