Question - are there any 'builtin' variables? about phpdotenv HOT 5 CLOSED

No, there are no built-ins, but there may be variables already set outside of your env file that can be access from it.

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Some that are resolved from $_SERVER: https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php.

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yeah, it will contain a PWD, but when I played with that one, it tells you the directory of the calling script, not the location of the .env file. I already had a method -- since the calling scripts are generally going to be 'under' the project root -- that will search-up the current path until it finds a .env (in my case, I also confirm with other directories/files such a vendor and composer). But that too can be unreliable as dev environments often use symlinks for local packages who's source code is under a different path.
I was just curious before hardcoding a parameter in every installations .env file. It just seems quirky to hard code a path that you then have to hard code again to read the environment file to get the path. And or to read an env file to set environment variables then have to set an environment variable of where you found the env file (or where root is). I thought maybe the path read might be stored somewhere.

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