Getting the active Symfony application's environment

Published on 2020-10-10 • Modified on 2020-10-10

In this snippet, we will see how to get the active Symfony application's environment. There are two ways of doing it: by using the kernel or by getting the kernel.environment services container's parameter. Both methods must return the same value. Note that when using the dotenv component, one could also use the $_ENV['APP_ENV'] superglobal, but it's not a good practice.

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<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Controller\Snippet;

use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\KernelInterface;

/**
 * I am using a PHP trait to isolate each snippet in a file.
 * This code should be called from a Symfony controller extending AbstractController (as of Symfony 4.2)
 * or Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller (Symfony <= 4.1).
 * Services are injected in the main controller constructor.
 *
 * @property KernelInterface $kernel
 */
trait Snippet116Trait
{
    public function snippet116(): void
    {
        $fromKernel = $this->kernel->getEnvironment();
        $fromParameters = $this->getParameter('kernel.environment');

        if ($fromKernel !== $fromParameters) {
            throw new \RuntimeException('Houston, We Have a Problem. 💥');
        }

        echo sprintf('The current active application environment is "%s".', $fromKernel); // That's it! 😁
    }
}

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<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Tests\Integration\Controller\Snippets;

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Test\KernelTestCase;

/**
 * @see Snippet116Trait
 */
final class Snippet116Test extends KernelTestCase
{
    protected function setUp(): void
    {
        self::bootKernel();
    }

    /**
     * @see Snippet116Trait::snippet116
     */
    public function testSnippet116(): void
    {
        self::assertSame(self::$kernel->getEnvironment(), self::getContainer()->getParameter('kernel.environment'));
    }
}

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