Hello,

a little bit off-topic but I would like to understand what´s going wrong with my code. I would like to use a third-party extension outside of laravel; for this I need the config() helper to get it running.

Here is my code:

require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

use Illuminate\Container\Container;
use Illuminate\Config\Repository;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Config;

/*
 * from https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/11.x/src/Illuminate/Foundation/helpers.php#L108
 */
	if (! function_exists('app')) {
	    /**
	     * Get the available container instance.
	     *
	     * @template TClass
	     *
	     * @param  string|class-string<TClass>|null  $abstract
	     * @param  array  $parameters
	     * @return ($abstract is class-string<TClass> ? TClass : ($abstract is null ? \Illuminate\Foundation\Application : mixed))
	     */
	    function app($abstract = null, array $parameters = [])
	    {
	        if (is_null($abstract)) {
	            return Container::getInstance();
	        }

	        return Container::getInstance()->make($abstract, $parameters);
	    }
	}

/*
 * from https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/11.x/src/Illuminate/Foundation/helpers.php#L259
 */
	if (! function_exists('config')) {
	    /**
	     * Get / set the specified configuration value.
	     *
	     * If an array is passed as the key, we will assume you want to set an array of values.
	     *
	     * @param  array<string, mixed>|string|null  $key
	     * @param  mixed  $default
	     * @return ($key is null ? \Illuminate\Config\Repository : ($key is string ? mixed : null))
	     */
	    function config($key = null, $default = null)
	    {
	        if (is_null($key)) {
	            return app('config');
	        }

	        if (is_array($key)) {
	            return app('config')->set($key);
	        }

	        return app('config')->get($key, $default);
	    }
	}

$container = new \Illuminate\Container\Container();
Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade::setFacadeApplication($container); 		// result: NULL
$container->singleton('app', Illuminate\Container\Container::class); 		// result: NULL
class_alias(Illuminate\Support\Facades\App::class, 'app');

$container->singleton('config', \Illuminate\Config\Repository::class);
class_alias(\Illuminate\Config\Repository::class, 'config');

/*
also tried without success:
$container->singleton('config', function () use ($container) {
  $config = new Illuminate\Config\Repository;
  return $config;
});
class_alias(\Illuminate\Config\Repository::class, 'config');
*/


// this is ok and returns "hello world"
Config::set('examplekey', 'hello world');
echo Config::get('examplekey', 'defaultValue');
echo "<br>\n";

// but this returns "defaultValue"
echo config('examplekey', 'defaultValue');
echo "<br>\n";

// seems that ->make is problematic (?) - each time it returns another instance id:
echo "<pre>";
Var_Dump(Container::getInstance()->make('config', []));
Var_Dump(Container::getInstance()->make('config', []));
echo "</pre><br>\n";

exit;

When I try to use the config-helper (1:1 taken from the laravel repository) I do not get my config-values. I have stripped it down: ->make (used by the 'app' function) creates every time a new instance. The expected behaviour is that a singleton is being used - therefore the config values should be present.

I guess I need some "glue" between the 'app' and the 'config' classes (?).

Hope someone could help.

Thanks Sebastian