Lumen Micro Framework => php artisan key:generate

Question

I\'m trying out the PHP micro Framework Lumen (from Laravel).

One of my first steps was to look into the .env.example file and make a copy of it to have my

Answer 1

The APP_KEY generation is a step of development process (I don't think that creating temporarily routes is a practical way to do it). The function str_random can help us, but this function is part of Laravel/Lunmen framework. I recommend running tinker

php artisan tinker

and then run the function

>>> str_random(32)

The result is the key you're looking for.

=> "y3DLxnEczGWGN4CKUdk1S5GbMumU2dfH"