Laravel Environments

Environment Details

Get Laravel project environment on terminal:

$ php artisan env

Get Laravel project environment by code:

if (App::environment('local')) {
    // The environment is local
}

if (App::environment(['local', 'staging'])) {
    // The environment is either local OR staging...
}

Types of Laravel environments:

• local
• production
• staging
• testing <-- automatically sets when doing phpunit testing

Change environment:

Set the following on .env file:

APP_ENV=local

After changing .env file on production environment server, run following to apply the changes:
$ php artisan config:clear