Adapterrepository.php -> get returns sometimes null

[susanne99]

i use laravel 11 on WIN11 in XAMPP Environment. With laravel 10 i had no problems. but after upgrade it happens sometimes, that he read null from the config settings. not only the app_key, other config settings also. i debugged a little bit, and see that this function in adapterrepository.php returns sometimes null, that means it is very instabil the strange thing is, the production is an debian with apache and it works there without problems. but anyway, there must be a "bug", or what do you thing ?

in the $this->reader there are 3 readers in - is that okay ?? Dotenv\Repository\Adapter\MultiReader {#48 -readers: array:3 [ 0 => Dotenv\Repository\Adapter\ServerConstAdapter {#26} 1 => Dotenv\Repository\Adapter\EnvConstAdapter {#25} 2 => Dotenv\Repository\Adapter\PutenvAdapter {#27} ] }

the echo line is from me for debugging purpose only

`public function get(string $name) { if ('' === $name) { throw new InvalidArgumentException('Expected name to be a non-empty string.'); }

    ****if ($name == "APP_KEY"){
        echo "sdasdasd  -> " . $this->reader->read($name)->getOrElse(null);
    }****

    return $this->reader->read($name)->getOrElse(null);
}`

[GrahamCampbell]

This is a known issue with putenv and getenv. They are not thread safe, and concurrent calls can corrupt memory. I'd recommend removing PutenvAdapter.

[GrahamCampbell]

See https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv?tab=readme-ov-file#putenv-and-getenv.

[susanne99]

Hello, great, finally someone who knows his stuff. laravel uses these functions, not me!! how can I remove the PutenvAdapter adapter? If only via Laravel, right?

[GrahamCampbell]

With Laravel, you should never be using env directly in your code. Only put env in your config files, and then run the config:cache command. This means that your app doesn't actually call these functions at runtime, and you are never using these functions in a threaded context.

[GrahamCampbell]

This is somewhat subtext in their docs, but they do point out that the env file is not loaded when config is cached: https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/configuration#configuration-caching.

[GrahamCampbell]

It is also possible to tell Laravel to not use putenv and getenv. See https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/v11.23.5/src/Illuminate/Support/Env.php#L26-L46; https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/28908; https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/28740.