Is overriding base config with environment config available in OC3?

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#1

I used a nice feature in OC1 where if I had an config key under local/config.php it would overridde the base config.php value when on local. I see that is not working out of the box in OC3.

The docs for OC1 is here

Was is discarded on purpose?
Does anyone has any workarounds for this?

#2

Hi and welcome @bogdanb

For your example, you’d use a .env.local file instead which overrides specific values inside your .php config files, which are now a single source of truth in terms of configuration. This is the suggested approach provided by Laravel.

So if a config value exists in PHP as:

'database' => env('DATABASE_NAME', 'bar')

The production value in .env could be

DATABASE_NAME=prod

And the local value in .env.local could be

DATABASE_NAME=test

The documentation mentions it here:

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