scout: "null" driver not settable via env variable

Try add this to your .env file just like what works in phpunit.xml file

SCOUT_DRIVER='"null"'

This way we don’t have to ‘hack’ the scout config file

@calebporzio You have to use double quotes on the SCOUT_DRIVER null value. Like this: <env name="SCOUT_DRIVER" value='"null"'/>

This is no longer an issue; works fine after this:

https://github.com/laravel/scout/pull/224

Hello, I found a solution. You need to setup it in reversed way. Instead in your .env file put

SCOUT_DRIVER=null 

and in config/Scout.php

'driver' => env('SCOUT_DRIVER', 'algolia')

Put in .env

SCOUT_DRIVER=algolia

and in config/Scout.php

'driver' => env('SCOUT_DRIVER', 'null')

Of course then you can just remove it from local environment and it will means that it will use null.

Using double quotes on the environment variable doesn’t work. I’ve been trying to do this to disable Laravel Scout in my test environment. Dotenv must take the string “null” to become null as well.

SCOUT_DRIVER="null"

>>> env('SCOUT_DRIVER');
=> null

My solution in the meantime has been to set the default driver to “null” in the config/scout.php file and then set it to “algolia” through an environment variable in production, but clearly this isn’t great.

I suspect this issue will also affect the “null” Broadcast driver.

How would one do that in a phpunit.xml file where the values are already between quotes?

<env name="SCOUT_DRIVER" value="null" />

Presumably I could use single quotes to wrap it but I haven’t yet tested if it works:

<env name="SCOUT_DRIVER" value='"null"' />