Can't Get Config Data in Lumen

You need to make sure you are enabling the DOTENV from bootstrap/app.php file. Also, if you are using the facade, you have to enable those as well. You do this in the same file around line 22. Just uncomment $app->withFacades();

Hey @bretterer, thanks for reply!

I had already enabled both too. These was the first things that I did.

Marcel

Here is how I make this work.

Create a directory in the root of your application called config. Within the config directory, you want to create a file just like you would in Laravel. For my example, I used the file name test.php which looked like this:

<?php

return [
    'key' => '12345'
];

Then, in my home route file (you would move this to a more global position (bootstrap/app.php maybe)) You add $app->configure('test') to enable that config file. From within your route or where you need the config you then make sure you are using the facade and run Config::get('test.key'); and that should give you access to it. I have noticed, you need to run $app->configure() for all files, including the default ones you want to override, unlike what the documentation says.

A NOTE: in Lumen, everything is meant to be done via the .env file and you can access these by using the env() function or the PHP $_ENV Global. I would say this is the recommended way as if you look into the vendor/larave/lumen-framework/config/* files, they all reference the environment variables.

Hope this helps!

@bretterer, thanks!

I forgot to run $app->configure() and, for this reason, configuration files weren't working. Now, I have other question, where should I put $app->configure()? Can I run it from base Controller?

Thanks,

Marcel dos Santos

I would do it in your bootstrap/app.php file

I placed mine within the AppServiceProvider register method. Make sure you uncomment the following line in bootstrap/app.php:

$app->register(App\Providers\AppServiceProvider::class);

Took me a bit to sort this out as well.

The confusion comes from the docs not making it clear that a config dir in your project root will be scanned for files matching those in the lumen-framework:

/PATH/TO/PROJECT/vendor/laravel/lumen-framework/config/app.php
/PATH/TO/PROJECT/vendor/laravel/lumen-framework/config/auth.php
/PATH/TO/PROJECT/vendor/laravel/lumen-framework/config/broadcasting.php
/PATH/TO/PROJECT/vendor/laravel/lumen-framework/config/cache.php
/PATH/TO/PROJECT/vendor/laravel/lumen-framework/config/database.php
/PATH/TO/PROJECT/vendor/laravel/lumen-framework/config/filesystems.php
/PATH/TO/PROJECT/vendor/laravel/lumen-framework/config/mail.php
/PATH/TO/PROJECT/vendor/laravel/lumen-framework/config/queue.php
/PATH/TO/PROJECT/vendor/laravel/lumen-framework/config/session.php
/PATH/TO/PROJECT/vendor/laravel/lumen-framework/config/view.php

In one project I added a /PATH/TO/PROJECT/config/queue.php and it was picked up without incident, but in another project, I added /path/to/project/config/services.php to hold microservice host configs, but it wasn't picked up until I added $app->configure('services') to my /bootstrap/app.php

Hope this helps clarify for others in the future.

For those who are still confused and require a bit more visuals - @oh4real solution was on the right path.

1. Create a directory on the root level of your project a folder config (just like laravel 5.2) You can include all the basic ones (as showned by oh4real)

...
config/app.php
config/database.php
config/cache.php
...

Then within bootstrap/app.php file:

$app->group(['namespace' => 'App\Http\Controllers'], function ($app) {
    require __DIR__.'/../app/Http/routes.php';
});
//...
$app->configure('app');
$app->configure('database');
$app->configure('cache');
//..

return $app;

Then anywhere in your app, you would invoke the respective config via:

config('app');
config('app.key');
//etc

TLDR;

Alternatively, you can make it cleaner by looping through the directory or in my case:

$config = [
    'app',
    'database',
    'cache'
];
$app->group(['namespace' => 'App\Http\Controllers'], function ($app) {
    require __DIR__.'/../app/Http/routes.php';
});

foreach ($config as $file) {
    $app->configure($file);
}

return $app;

will yield the same result

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Having the same issue... cant not get any config... now in Auth...

$app->configure('app'); $app->configure('auth');

config/auth.php