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

An easy solution is just running PHP code from the terminal (without using tinker, because that is not available with Lumen):

php -r "require 'vendor/autoload.php'; echo str_random(32).PHP_EOL;"

It uses Laravel's Str::random() function that makes use of the secure random_bytes() function.

Answer 2

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"

Answer 3

Simply use PHP CLI. Run this from your local or a remote command line to generate a random 32-character Lumen APP_KEY:

php -r "echo bin2hex(random_bytes(16));"

Output: bae48aba23b3e4395b7f1b484dd25192

Works with PHP 7.x on Mac and Windows.

Answer 4

All I do on mac is execute this command in the terminal:

date | md5 | pbcopy

This copies the value into the clipboard and so you can easily paste the key into the .env file.

Answer 5

I have used these commands:

php -r \"copy('.env.example', '.env');\"

php -r "echo password_hash(uniqid(), PASSWORD_BCRYPT).\"\n\";"

The command generates a key similar to this:

$2y$10$jb3kw/vUANyzZ4ncMa4rwuR09qldQ2OjX8PGrVB5dIlSnUAPCGjFe

Answer 6

This answer was inspired by @thomas-venturini 's update to the question. Here's a bash script that takes care of creating .env and updating it with an APP_KEY using the aforementioned PHP command and the UNIX sed command:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

function generate_app_key {
    php -r "echo md5(uniqid()).\"\n\";"
}

APP_KEY=$(generate_app_key)

sed -e s/APP_KEY=.*$/APP_KEY=${APP_KEY}/g .env.example > .env

Hope someone finds this useful.