Environment configuration in Laravel - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to load environment variables in Laravel.

Laravel

Dotenv::createImmutable(__DIR__)->[1]();

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Ainit

Brun

Cload

Dstart

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Common Mistakes

Using methods like run or start which do not exist in Dotenv.

Confusing initialization with loading.

The load() method loads the environment variables from the .env file.

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medium

Complete the code to get the value of APP_ENV from environment variables.

Laravel

$environment = env('[1]', 'production');

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AAPP_ENV

BAPP_DEBUG

CAPP_URL

DAPP_NAME

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Common Mistakes

Using APP_DEBUG which controls debug mode, not environment.

Using APP_URL or APP_NAME which are unrelated.

The env() helper fetches the value of the environment variable named APP_ENV.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly set the database host from environment variables.

Laravel

'host' => env('[1]', '127.0.0.1'),

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ADB_HOST

BDB_DATABASE

CDB_PORT

DDB_USERNAME

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Common Mistakes

Using DB_PORT which is for the port number.

Using DB_DATABASE which is the database name.

Using DB_USERNAME which is the user name.

The correct environment variable for the database host is DB_HOST.

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hard

Fill both blanks to set the mail driver and mail host from environment variables.

Laravel

'driver' => env('[1]', 'smtp'),
'host' => env('[2]', 'smtp.mailtrap.io'),

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AMAIL_MAILER

BMAIL_DRIVER

CMAIL_HOST

DMAIL_PORT

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Common Mistakes

Using MAIL_MAILER instead of MAIL_DRIVER in older Laravel versions.

Confusing MAIL_PORT with MAIL_HOST.

Older Laravel versions use MAIL_DRIVER for mail driver, and MAIL_HOST for mail host.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to set cache driver, queue connection, and session driver from environment variables.

Laravel

'cache' => env('[1]', 'file'),
'queue' => env('[2]', 'sync'),
'session' => env('[3]', 'file'),

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ACACHE_DRIVER

BQUEUE_CONNECTION

CSESSION_DRIVER

DCACHE_CONNECTION

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Common Mistakes

Using CACHE_CONNECTION instead of CACHE_DRIVER.

Mixing up QUEUE_CONNECTION and SESSION_DRIVER.

These are the standard environment variable names for cache, queue, and session drivers in Laravel.