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Posted by admin on December 17th, 2011

When a variable on the console is set

export VARIABLE=VALUE;

You can get it from PHP Command line (CLI) using

getenv(‘VARIABLE’)

Example

#script.php
<?php
var_dump(getenv('VAR'));
?>

From command line

php -f script.php //bool(false)
export VAR=a; php -f script.php //string(1) "a"

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