Environment detection

[cachethq]

Environment detection

[jbrooksuk]

The only detection that happens is for Heroku. It's a bit flimsy actually:

$env = $app->detectEnvironment(function() {
    // Take care of Heroku deployment for us.
    if ($envName = getenv('ENV')) {
        return $envName;
    }

    // Always fall back to local.
    return 'local';
});

When deploying to Heroku an environmental variable is created named ENV=heroku (unless the user changes it). This is the only time we check, otherwise it'll fallback to local, which is obviously not always ideal.

[jbrooksuk]

I forgot to mention that technically if you have an environment var named ENV you can set it to production if you wanted to.

But yes, this should be documented.