If your $_ENV array is mysteriously empty, but you still see the variables when calling getenv() or in your phpinfo(), check your http://us.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.variables-order ini setting to ensure it includes "E" in the string.
$_ENV
(PHP 4 >= 4.1.0, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
$_ENV — Environment variables
Descrierea
An associative array of variables passed to the current script via the environment method.
These variables are imported into PHP's global namespace from the environment under which the PHP parser is running. Many are provided by the shell under which PHP is running and different systems are likely running different kinds of shells, a definitive list is impossible. Please see your shell's documentation for a list of defined environment variables.
Other environment variables include the CGI variables, placed there regardless of whether PHP is running as a server module or CGI processor.
Exemple
Example #1 $_ENV example
<?php
echo 'My username is ' .$_ENV["USER"] . '!';
?>
Assuming "bjori" executes this script
Exemplul de mai sus va afișa ceva similar cu:
My username is bjori!
Note
Notă:
Aceasta este o variabilă 'superglobală', sau globală automată. Aceasta pur și simplu înseamnă că ea este disponibilă în toate circumstanțele pe parcursul script-ului. Nu este nevoie de a scrie global $variable; pentru a o accesa din funcții sau metode.
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User Contributed Notes 2 notes
gabe-php at mudbugmedia dot com ¶
14 years ago
aasasdasdf at yandex dot ru ¶
10 years ago
Please note that writing to $_ENV does not actually set an environment variable, i.e. the variable will not propagate to any child processes you launch (except forked script processes, in which case it's just a variable in the script's memory). To set real environment variables, you must use putenv().
Basically, setting a variable in $_ENV does not have any meaning besides setting or overriding a script-wide global variable. Thus, one should never modify $_ENV except for testing purposes (and then be careful to use putenv() too, if appropriate).
PHP will not trigger any kind of error or notice when writing to $_ENV.
