How to check if I'm in a testing environment

[Matt Stauffer]

In Laravel, I would normally use one of these methods to check if I'm in a testing environment:

• \App\environment() === 'testing'
• config('app.env') === 'testing'
• \App::runningUnitTests()

But in Laravel Zero, the first two come back as development and the third is false.

What's the Laravel Zero idiomatic way to fix this?

Thanks!

[Matt Stauffer]

What I've done that worked, but I didn't know if it was preferred:

1. Add this block to the bottom of phpunit.xml.dist, right before </phpunit>:

    <php>
        <server name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/>
    </php>

2. Update the env key in config/app.php to this:

'env' => env('APP_ENV', 'development'),

[Nuno Maduro]

@owenvoke Do know why this is not working on Laravel Zero? Couldn't find the reason.

[Owen Voke]

I think this is defaulted to development because it is replaced with production in-place during the build process. I'd say that @mattstauffer's solution is probably the easiest way to resolve this. 🤔