Ability to pass environment variables in other way then only by .env* files

[sobi3ch]

Laravel utilizes the DotEnv PHP library. This require .env (or .env.{APP_NAME}) to exists in your root project dir.

I would like to be able to use env vars directly from a running shell instead of depending only on the env file.

The root issue for me is that I would like to use doppler for my secrets and config vars but because Laravel depends on .env* (DotEnv lib) file(s) it cannot be done.

[sobi3ch]

My bad. Forget that laravel's env() order of checking env var is $_ENV, $_SERVER, getenv() and then from .env file. Sorry for the hassle