Configuration

We use a configuration file in order for Coilpack to understand the details of your ExpressionEngine installation.

Setup

If you followed the steps in Getting Started you should have already run php artisan coilpack which creates the config/coilpack.php file for you. If you do not want to run this command you may also publish the config file by running php artisan vendor:publish --tag=coilpack-config.

Environment variables

Due to the nature of how ExpressionEngine is loaded through Coilpack you can set variables in your Laravel .env and access those values inside of your ExpressionEngine config.php file. This can help keep your secrets out of version control and in one central location. We recommend updating your config.php to access database credentials and other secrets from the $_ENV global.

Certain configuration variables in ExpressionEngine will be overwritten by your Laravel environment and config variables. This is a list of current overrides:

Environment	Config	Overwrites Config	Overwrites Control Panel Settings
APP_URL	'app.url'	$config['base_url']	URL and Path > Default base URL
N/A	'coilpack.base_path'	$config['base_path']	URL and Path > Default base path

Accessing ExpressionEngine Config Values

After Coilpack bootstraps ExpressionEngine you will be able to access any of your ExpressionEngine system/user/config.php values through the Laravel config() helper. For example to get your app_version you could call config('coilpack.expressionengine.app_version') within your Laravel application.