Setting PHP enviromental variable while running command line script

Question

I need to run a PHP script from command line and I need to set some environmental variables. Unfortunately, following does not work:

php -dAPPLICATION_ENV=st         


        

Answer 1

When you execute a PHP script from the command line, it inherits the environment variables defined in your shell. That means you can set an environment variable using the export command like so:

export APPLICATION_ENV='staging'