How to set .env values in laravel programmatically on the fly

Question

I have a custom CMS that I am writing from scratch in Laravel and want to set env values i.e. database details, mailer details, general configuration, etc from

Answer 1

Based on josh's answer. I needed a way to replace the value of a key inside the .env file.

But unlike josh's answer, I did not want to depend on knowing the current value or the current value being accessible in a config file at all.

Since my goal is to replace values that are used by Laravel Envoy which doesn't use a config file at all but instead uses the .env file directly.

Here's my take on it:

public function setEnvironmentValue($envKey, $envValue)
{
    $envFile = app()->environmentFilePath();
    $str = file_get_contents($envFile);

    $oldValue = strtok($str, "{$envKey}=");

    $str = str_replace("{$envKey}={$oldValue}", "{$envKey}={$envValue}\n", $str);

    $fp = fopen($envFile, 'w');
    fwrite($fp, $str);
    fclose($fp);
}

Usage:

$this->setEnvironmentValue('DEPLOY_SERVER', 'forge@122.11.244.10');