How to set Environment with PHP built-in server?

[Art4]

I want to use the PHP built-in server for test purpose but have trouble with setting the right environment.

I'm starting the server like this:

env FUEL_ENV=test php -d variables_order=EGPCS -S localhost:8000 -t public/

But the problem is that in the built-in server the FUEL_ENV appears only in $_ENV but not in $_SERVER. I'd workaround this with adding this line in fuel/app/bootstrap.php:

Fuel::$env = (isset($_SERVER['FUEL_ENV']) ? $_SERVER['FUEL_ENV'] : (isset($_ENV['FUEL_ENV']) ? $_ENV['FUEL_ENV'] : Fuel::DEVELOPMENT));

This works, but seems ugly to me. Am I missing something and there is a better way to achieve this problem?

[WanWizard]

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67808

Which suggests the SAPI behaviour (of copying the data to $_SERVER) is percieved as wrong. How about:

Fuel::$env = Arr::get($_SERVER, 'FUEL_ENV', Arr::get($_ENV, 'FUEL_ENV', Fuel::DEVELOPMENT));

We could probably even switch to simply using $_ENV, that should always work.

[WanWizard]

Using $_ENV instead of $_SERVER seems to work fine.

[WanWizard]

I've committed the change to the Fuel repo.

[Art4]

Great, thank you very much!

I'll use the changes from https://github.com/fuel/fuel/commit/7b0a92425a01320135f3fdb5e7d1cbe9ff318c30

[WanWizard]

Nope, it is more complex.

• PHP/SAPI can use $_ENV, also for using "env", "export" and Apache SetEnv.
• PHP-fpm uses $_ENV for "env" and "export" and $_SERVER for Apache SetEnv.
• Nginx uses $_ENV for "env" and "export" and $_SERVER for fcgi_param.

So both need to be checked.

[Art4]

Symfony simply merged $_ENV into $_SERVER for the same issue, see https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/61763452b7d265e883f5edaf76b50d15074a8e81

[WanWizard]

I find that a bit of a hack, as it obscures what happens. And not very secure as well, as it allows a SERVER variable to be overwritten by an ENV variable, of which the source might not be known.