Recommended way to force laravel to load env earlier

[lk77]

Hello,

i'm in a situation where i need an environement variable, but when i need it, inside prepare function of DuskTestCase, the environement is not yet available, it's only loaded when setUp is called.

So i need laravel to load the environement,

i'm doing that :

app(LoadEnvironmentVariables::class)->bootstrap(app());

is it the best way / recommended way ?

thanks.

[crynobone]

For such requirements I would just read .env directly using DotEnv classes.

[lk77]

That's what i was doing earlier with $env = \Dotenv\Dotenv::createArrayBacked('./')->load(); but i was searching for a solution allowing me to use env() helper instead, i guess i will keep using LoadEnvironmentVariables for now