Laravel quick tips: Getting alternative values in config files

When working with the Laravel config files you may set a default value on env retrieval. This may cause an issue when the key exists in the env file but has no value so a solution is to use the ternary shorthand:

/**
* In the .env file
*
* TITLE=
* ALT_TITLE='Wheel Of Time'
*/

return [
    'title' => env('TITLE', env('ALT_TITLE')); 
    // will return null because the TITLE key
    // exists but is empty

    'title' => env('TITLE') ?: env('ALT_TITLE'); 
    // this one however will return 'Wheel Of Time' 
]

Originally seen at: https://twitter.com/michaeldyrynda/status/1433210939126464515