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Mastering PHP Design Patterns
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Mastering PHP Design Patterns

by Junade Ali
September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
5h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Environment variables in PHP source

Far too often you come across a project on GitHub and you notice that the original developer has left in a config.php file that contains (in the best case) useless database information or (in the worst case) incredibly important API keys.

When these files aren't accidentally versioned they are often shoved in a .gitignore file with a sample file attached for developers to amend as they need. One example of a platform that does this is WordPress.

There are some minor improvements to this, such as putting core configuration in an XML file that is buried in some obscure document with plenty of irrelevant configuration.

I've found that there tend to be two good ways of managing environment variables in PHP. The first ...

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