feat(App): Ability to load environment variables with .env files.

- Added .env.example as guide when deploying app
- Added security rules to .htaccess
- Updated .gitignore to ignore .env files

.env.example

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+GUSI_FRAMEWORK_ENCRYPTION_KEY=YourEncryptionKey
+GUSI_FRAMEWORK_DB_USER=YourDatabaseUser
+GUSI_FRAMEWORK_DB_PASSWORD=YourDatabasePassword

.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# Ignore .env files
+.env
+
 # Ignore .log debug files in App/Logs/Debug
 App/Logs/Debug/*.log
 

.htaccess

@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
 </IfModule>
 
+<FilesMatch "^\.env$">
+    Order allow,deny
+    Deny from all
+</FilesMatch>
+
 Options -Indexes
 RewriteEngine On
 

App/Core/Application/App.php

@@ -46,9 +46,32 @@ public function __construct()
 	private function init()
 	{
 		$this->loadModules();
+		$this->loadEnvironmentVariables();
 		Router::getInstance()->handleRequest();
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Loads environment variables from the .env file.
+	 */
+	private function loadEnvironmentVariables(){
+		if (file_exists('.env')) {
+			$envData = file_get_contents('.env');
+			$envLines = explode("\n", $envData);
+			foreach ($envLines as $line) {
+				$line = trim($line);
+				if (empty($line) || strpos($line, '#') === 0) {
+					continue;
+				}
+				$parts = explode('=', $line, 2);
+				if (count($parts) === 2) {
+					$key = trim($parts[0]);
+					$value = trim($parts[1]);
+					putenv("$key=$value");
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Loads modules from the App/Modules directory.
 	 */