Laravel Database URL

This package will provide automatically parse and configure you Laravel application to use the custom environment variables that commonly used for services like Heroku and Docker.

Installation

Require this package with composer.

composer require alexwijn/laravel-database-url

Laravel 5.5 uses Package Auto-Discovery, so doesn't require you to manually add the ServiceProvider.

Laravel 5.5+:

If you don't use auto-discovery, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php

Alexwijn\DatabaseUrl\ServiceProvider::class,

Supported environment variables

At the moment we support the following configurations:

• DATABASE_URL - Eg. mysql://username:password@localhost/database
• DATABASE_URL - Eg. mariadb://username:password@localhost/database
• DATABASE_URL - Eg. postgres://username:password@localhost/database
• REDIS_URL - Eg. redis://redis:password@localhost/0
• ELASTICSEARCH_URL - Eg. tcp://localhost:9200