Use nova_get_setting into config/* files ?

[scramatte]

Hello,

I would like to use nova_get_setting into config/* files for notifications, mail and ldap settings I've got the following error

Call to a member function connection() on null

Thank you for the help

[Tarpsvo]

You can't use nova-settings in the config files. Nova Settings values depend on a database and config files are created before the database connection is set up (which is also set up using config files, so it's a loop pretty much).

[nathan-io]

We wanted to use these settings in config, so the approach was to create a helper to safely check for the value, then use it in our service providers to set config values:

Helper:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

    function safe_nova_get_setting($settingName, $fallbackValue) {
        $return = $fallbackValue;
        if(Schema::hasTable('nova_settings')) {
            try {
                $return = nova_get_setting($settingName, $fallbackValue);
            } catch (Throwable $e) {}
        }
        return $return;
    }

In AppServiceProvider@boot:

        config([
            'app.timezone' => safe_nova_get_setting('APP_TIMEZONE', 'UTC'),
            // ...
        ]);

This is working fine so far, but hasn't been thoroughly tested.