Laravel, how to get the environment value?

Question

I know that I can access the environment value using the global `$env` variable, but is there the right way to get this value?

Accepted Answer

You're in luck - this was just added in Beta 4 - see here for details

Added App::environment method.

Edit: these are now a number of various ways to get the environment variable as of Laravel 4.1

```
App::environment()
app()->environment()
app()->env
$GLOBALS['env'] // not recommended - but it is possible
```

You can also specifically check for if the current environment is set to 'local'

```
App::isLocal()
app()->isLocal()
```

...or 'production'

```
App::isProduction()
app()->isProduction()
```

You can also specifically check for if the current environment is set to 'testing'

```
App::runningUnitTests()
app()->runningUnitTests()
```

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