If you've followed my blog for a while, you've probably seen me struggle with Laravel's environment detection--especially regarding using environment variables. (Example) Thankfully, Laravel 5.0 vastly simplifies environment detection. In 4, you could have multiple environment files based on the environment name (.env.php, .env.local.php, etc.). In all honesty, I never used the environment-specifi
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