Cannot get value from config in Lumen - laravel

Question

I want to change the timezone in lumen, but I cannot get the value from config, it always give the default value UTC.
I've tried everything I know, to the point changing the default value to what I wanted. But still the timezone wont change
AppServiceProvider
public function register()
{
//set local timezone
date_default_timezone_set(config('app.timezone'));
//set local date name
setLocale(LC_TIME, $this->app->getLocale());
URL::forceRootUrl(Config::get('app.url'));
}
Bootstrap.app
(new Laravel\Lumen\Bootstrap\LoadEnvironmentVariables(
dirname(__DIR__)
))->bootstrap();
date_default_timezone_set(env('APP_TIMEZONE', 'Asia/Jakarta'));
$app->configure('app');
Config.app
'timezone' => env("APP_TIMEZONE", "Asia/Jakarta"),
.env
APP_TIMEZONE="Asia/Jakarta"
APP_LOCALE="id"
Also if I make a variable inside config.app such as:
'tes_var' => 'Test'
And using it like this:
\Log::info(config('app.tes_var'));
The result in Log is null, I can't get the value from tes_var.
I don't have any idea what's wrong here, if it's in Laravel maybe this is happened because cached config, but there's no cached config in Lumen. Maybe I miss some configuration here?
Thanks

Answer 1

First, you should create the config/ directory in your project root folder.
Then create a new file app.php under the config directory i.e. config/app.php
Now add whatever config values you want to access later in your application in the config/app.php file.
So, instead of creating a config.php file you should make a config directory and can create multiple config files under the config directory.
So final code will be like this:
config/app.php will have:
<?PHP
return [
'test_var' => 'Test'
];
Can access it anywhere like this:
config('app.tes_var');
Although Lumen bootstrap/app.php has already loaded the app.php config file (can check here: https://github.com/laravel/lumen/blob/9.x/bootstrap/app.php)
If not loaded in your case, you can add the below line in bootstrap/app.php file:
$app->configure('app');
Hope it will help you.

Answer 2

In order to use the env file while caching the configs, you need to create a env.php inside the config folder. Then, load all env variables and read as "env.VARIABLE_FROM_ENV". Example env.php:
<?php
use Dotenv\Dotenv;
$envVariables = [];
$loaded = Dotenv::createArrayBacked(base_path())->load();
foreach ($loaded as $key => $value) {
$envVariables[$key] = $value;
}
return $envVariables;
then read in your code:
$value = config('env.VARIABLE_FROM_ENV', 'DEFAULT_VALUE_IF_YOU_WANT');