May 19, 2017 Hi Guys, In this quick video I show you how to set up Windows to run PHP PHfrom the command prompt (DOS - cmd). The key is to add the variable path from PHP installation to your system's.
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 .env
file. There is a variable APP_KEY just like there is in Laravel. Now I tried out the simple command php artisan key:generate
to get my new key But I ran into the following error message
[InvalidArgumentException]There are no commands defined in the 'key' namespace.
Dec 07, 2016 The key:generate command is used to generate a random key. This command will update the key stored in the application's environment file. The command also supports an optional -show flag. Specifying this flag will simply show the generated key instead of updating any configuration or environment files. The base URL used in the Postman collection will be the value of the baseurl key in your Laravel config/apidoc.php file. Manually modifying the content of the generated documentation ¶ If you want to modify the content of your generated documentation without changing the routes, go ahead and edit the generated index.md file.
Application Key. The next thing you should do after installing Laravel is set your application key to a random string. If you installed Laravel via Composer or the Laravel installer, this key has already been set for you by the php artisan key:generate command. Typically, this string should be 32 characters long. To fix this you’ll need to run the key:generate command. Ubuntu@ubuntu-xenial:/var/www$ php artisan key:generate Application key set successfully. Now if you check your “.env” file the APPKEY will have a value and you won’t receive the “No application encryption key has been specified.” exception. Why It Exists.
Does some one know how I can generate keys for Lumen?
Update with solution
So I found my favorite solution for this problem. On the command line (Linux) I run php -r 'echo md5(uniqid()).'n';'
what gives me something like this 7142720170cef01171fd4af26ef17c93
.
If you are going to use Lumen more often, you may want to create an alias in your .bashrc
, which is located in your home directory /home/USERNAME
. To do so, you can open the file with nano ~/.bashrc
or vi ~/.bashrc
and copy the following alias at the end of the file, alias phpkey='php -r 'echo md5(uniqid()).'n';'
. Now you can use the command phpkey
which will give you a 32 character long random string 🙂
The Laravel command is fairly simple. It just generates a random 32 character long string. You can do the same in Lumen. Just temporarily add a route like this:
Then go to /key
in your browser and copy paste the key into your .env
file.
Afterwards remove the route.
Obviously you could also use some random string generator online. Like this one
Firstly, you have to register your key generator command, put this Lumen Key Generator Commands to app/Console/Commands/KeyGenerateCommand.php
. To make this command available in artisan
, change appConsoleKernel.php
:
After that, configure your application so that IlluminateConfigRepository
instance has app.key
value. To do this, change bootstrap/app.php
:
After that, copy your .env.example
file to .env
:
Ignore this step if you already use .env
/ac-unity-cd-key-generator.html. file.
Enjoy you key:generate
command via:
You may use Lumen Generator. It covers so much commands you are missing from Laravel.
An easy solution is just running PHP code from the terminal (without using tinker
, because that is not available with Lumen):
It uses Laravel’s Str::random()
function that makes use of the secure random_bytes()
function.
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 https://powerupwx.weebly.com/blog/download-imesh-for-mac-os-x.
>>> str_random(32)
/shift-2-unleashed-serial-key-generator.html.
The result is the key you’re looking for.
=> 'y3DLxnEczGWGN4CKUdk1S5GbMumU2dfH'
For me the easiest way to generate a Lumen key is typing on console one of these commands:
or
openssl rand -base64 24
depending of your environment. In my case, I aways use date md5
on mac
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:
Hope someone finds this useful.
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