Symfony Dotenv VS Safe

Keys and tokens in .env.local per environment (in .gitignore obviously), with a placeholder in the .env. I use https://github.com/symfony/dotenv

Do check dotenv files and gitignore for all your secrets and environment-specific variables (server addresses, etc.) https://github.com/symfony/dotenv

symfony/dotenv

I believe that Mozart couldn't handle some of the dependencies in my plugin. I'm making use of several of Symfony's components, including DependencyInjection, Cache and Dotenv, with everything managed through Composer.

thecodingmachine/safe: All PHP functions, rewritten to throw exceptions instead of returning false

There are workarounds with some third party libraries, but yeah, it's a pain.

- try not to use the built-in json_encode, as it doesnt have proper error handling. Use instead this: https://github.com/thecodingmachine/safe and Safe\json_encode()

Not what you asked for, in modern codebases it's advised to use things like https://github.com/thecodingmachine/safe

The goal of https://github.com/thecodingmachine/safe is different than proxyz. My goal is a method proxy that allows you to override or watch the behaviour of a function from the "global namespace" effortlessly.

Safe-PHP redeclares all core PHP functions (in a new namespace) to throw exceptions properly. I use this on almost every project now.