Title: PHP dotenv in WordPress anyone?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# PHP dotenv in WordPress anyone?

 *  Resolved [growdigital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/growdigital/)
 * (@growdigital)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-dotenv-in-wordpress-anyone/)
 * I’d like to use [PHP dotenv](https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv) with WordPress,
   so that I can easily keep my environment variables out of version control.
 * Has anyone had any joy with this? Pretty sure it’s straightforward setting environment
   variables in PHP but not really my area of expertise.

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 *  Thread Starter [growdigital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/growdigital/)
 * (@growdigital)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-dotenv-in-wordpress-anyone/#post-5046203)
 * This is what I’m putting in `wp-config.php`:
 *     ```
       require 'vendor/autoload.php';
       Dotenv::load(__DIR__);
       ```
   
 * and then:
 * `define('DB_NAME', 'getenv('DB_NAME')');`
 * I’m using [Composer](http://roots.io/using-composer-with-wordpress/) to manage
   dependencies, hence link to `autoload.php`
 *  Thread Starter [growdigital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/growdigital/)
 * (@growdigital)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-dotenv-in-wordpress-anyone/#post-5046390)
 * Ahh, I had a syntax error, should be:
 * `define('DB_NAME', getenv('DB_NAME'));`

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 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)
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