DO NOT use the env() helper function in Laravel
I am going to talk to you about why you should not use the env function in Laravel when implementing your controllers or similar since, due to its context, which are dynamic values or that can change or be eliminated easily, they can give exceptions.
Do not use the env() help function in your developments. Before telling you which one you should use, I will give you some reasons why not to use them and it is precisely due to the nature of the variables that it is referencing that they are environment variables that are found. stored in the .env of our project in Laravel therefore, due to its nature in which there are multiple of them defined in a single place and apart from the fact that we can easily change it by being able to use the env() function in their place in our developments in controllers and so on, this can cause some problems since they may not be defined in production or we may forget to define them.
So, it is better to instead use the help function called config() and define at the configuration level all those values that you want to use for your development, for example, PayPal keys, DropBox keys, anything that you want to integrate there.
- Andrés Cruz
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