How to set and get config variable in Laravel 5

How to set and get config variable in Laravel 5

You can easily get your configuration values using the config helper function from anywhere in your running application.

You can define your credentials which you can access from anywhere by using global config helper function.

You can set config value at runtime if value does not exist and most of the people are using .env file to set some credentials as details of database.

To get config value

  1. $value = config('app.timezone');

You can also define your custom config variable as record per page for pagination in view.php

To Set config value

You can change your timezone at runtime too.


  1. config(['app.timezone' => 'YOUR TIME ZONE']);

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