Laravel Settings Injector

laravel-settings-injector provides a bootstrapper replacement for the default LoadConfiguration bootstrapper from Laravel.

This allows you to create a directory to manage settings from outside of the application directory with symlinks so that various environment-specific variables can be managed at a systems-level for production and other internal enviroments.

This is probably not useful for many installations of Laravel, however due to recommendations of not using dotenv files for production environment variables this is necessary to obfuscate production variables from the application repository. The advantage is that the variables are scoped to LoadConfiguration instead of using global environment variables.

Installation

composer require mradcliffe/laravel-settings-injector

Configuration

1. Modify app/Http/Kernel.php.
2. Replace \Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\LoadConfiguration with \Radcliffe\LaravelSettingsInjector\Bootstrap\LoadConfiguration either by modifying an existing ::$bootstrappers protected variable or doing so within the ::bootstrappers() method of that class.
3. Modify app/Console/Kernel.php and add \Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel::$bootstrappers protected variables to there, and do the same replacement as in #2 above.

Usage

See tests directory for some example fixtures.

1. Create a settings directory in app root.
2. Provision files outside of the webroot, but required somehow by settings/settings.php. See image below.
3. Use those variables as normal in config/*.php to configure your application.
   • Note that any defines or requires could potentially happen more than once due to the way that Laravel works. Specifically artisan config:cache will load configuration after configuration has already been loaded so any use of define or require within settings/settings.php or any file it requires needs to take that into consideratino.