Support PHP environment-sourced settings/services/configuration via $_ENV

Created on 3 November 2012, over 12 years ago
Updated 19 March 2025, about 1 month ago

On Pantheon and other platforms (like Heroku), most configuration happens through environmental variables. They're especially useful because they allow straightforward changes to connection information (for things like databases) without changes to the code.

On Pantheon, we run as if the following were in settings.php:

extract(json_decode($_SERVER['PRESSFLOW_SETTINGS'], TRUE));

It would be great (and simple) to have something similar in core without needing a stub settings.php file or core hacks.

✨ Feature request
Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 πŸ”₯

Component

configuration system

Created by

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States david strauss San Francisco, CA

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  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States smustgrave

    Thank you for sharing your idea for improving Drupal.

    We are working to decide if this proposal meets the Criteria for evaluating proposed changes. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or there is no community support. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

    Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

    Thanks!

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