Question

I have an environmental variable defined in Windows environmental variables -> user variables

$MY_VARIABLE=mypath

and in php I tried to access it like below

<?php
echo $_ENV["MY_VARIABLE"];

but it doesn’t print anything. Am I missing something here or is it that PHP doesn’t have access to user environmental variables ?

EDIT: I am running PHP as an Apache module (important info that I left out initially).

Answer 1

You $_ENV is empty because of variables_order settings in PHP

Edit your PHP.INI

Change

  variables_order = "GPCS"

To

 variables_order = "EGPCS"

It should work by now if it does not try using .htaccess to achieve this

Add the following to your .htaccess

SetEnv foo bar

You can get it via PHP

var_dump(getenv('foo'),$_ENV);