Is Vercel's .env CLI compatible with vercel-php?

[Varun Singh]

Question

Are the vercel env commands usable for the vercel-php runtime? I want to store some secrets that are encrypted through Vercel. They are stored in my gitignored .env file. Can I access this in PHP?

[Milan Felix Šulc]

Hi. Yup, Environment Variables are supported. :-)

• It works seamless on Vercel platform, after deployment.
• Locally, it depends as you start your local development server.
  • SOME_ENV=foo php -S localhost:8000 api/index.php

[Varun Singh]

Thank you!
How do we access these variables in PHP? The docs only talk about JavaScript

[Varun Singh]

I am going to try using PHP's $_ENV

[Milan Felix Šulc]

Yes, use $_ENV or getenv().

I will put it on vercel-php doc.

[Varun Singh]

Thank you very much!