php - How to determine the environment in a cronjob

Question

I've got an issue on how to determine the application's environment during a cronjob. I have currently have 2 environments: a production and a testing environment. They both use their own database.

I determine the current environment based on the URL. For example: dev.domain.com sets the environment to testing and domain.com sets it to production.

This works perfectly. However, this does not work for cronjobs. Because a cronjob does not get a domain.

How would I solve this and still keeping things dynamic?

This is what the code currently looks like:

if($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'dev.domain.com' || $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'domain.local') {
    define('ENVIRONMENT', 'development');
}else if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'domain.com'){
    define('ENVIRONMENT', 'production');
}

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can pass server name in cron job. Example if your current php command look likes.

php a.php --uri="/foo"

It will become

SERVER_NAME=dev.domain.com php a.php --uri="/foo"