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I am new to coding in general. But have never used PHP before. It is not very clear on where to put my keys.

More context: https://github.com/erikaheidi/dynacover

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<?php

return [
    //Twitter API Keys
    'twitter_consumer_key' => getenv('TW_CONSUMER_KEY') ?: 'APP_CONSUMER_KEY',
    'twitter_consumer_secret' => getenv('TW_CONSUMER_SECRET') ?: 'APP_CONSUMER_SECRET',
    'twitter_user_token' => getenv('TW_USER_TOKEN') ?: 'USER_ACCESS_TOKEN',
    'twitter_token_secret' => getenv('TW_USER_TOKEN_SECRET') ?: 'USER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET',

    //GitHub Personal Token (for templates using GH Sponsors)
    'github_api_bearer' => getenv('GITHUB_TOKEN') ?: 'GITHUB_API_BEARER_TOKEN',

    //Default Template
    '`default_template`' => getenv('DEFAULT_TEMPLATE') ?: 'app/Resources/templates/cover_basic.json'
];

`

Juxxty
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  • That documentation says: _"You need to replace the following strings with the corresponding tokens: APP_CONSUMER_KEY APP_CONSUMER_SECRET USER_ACCESS_TOKEN USER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET GITHUB_API_BEARER_TOKEN"_. So you can just do that, if you don't want to put them in environment variables. – ADyson Nov 02 '21 at 09:03

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Let's take the following line of code to analyse where the credentials are stored

'twitter_consumer_key' => getenv('TW_CONSUMER_KEY') ?: 'APP_CONSUMER_KEY'
  • PHP will first use getenv() to obtain the environment variable TW_CONSUMER_KEY
  • If the environment variable could not be found, it uses the constant string "APP_CONSUMER_KEY" - this probably isn't very helpful in your case

Having established the credentials are designed to be stored in the environment variables in your sample, maybe this answer will help you on the next step: How to set global environment variables for PHP

For now, you could set the variables using the following code to test if the credentials work:

putenv('TW_CONSUMER_KEY=your_key_here');
putenv('TW_CONSUMER_SECRET=your_secret_key');
// And so on, and so forth :)

return [
    //Twitter API Keys
    'twitter_consumer_key' => getenv('TW_CONSUMER_KEY') ?: 'APP_CONSUMER_KEY',
    'twitter_consumer_secret' => getenv('TW_CONSUMER_SECRET') ?: 'APP_CONSUMER_SECRET',
    'twitter_user_token' => getenv('TW_USER_TOKEN') ?: 'USER_ACCESS_TOKEN',
    'twitter_token_secret' => getenv('TW_USER_TOKEN_SECRET') ?: 'USER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET',

    //GitHub Personal Token (for templates using GH Sponsors)
    'github_api_bearer' => getenv('GITHUB_TOKEN') ?: 'GITHUB_API_BEARER_TOKEN',

    //Default Template
    '`default_template`' => getenv('DEFAULT_TEMPLATE') ?: 'app/Resources/templates/cover_basic.json'
];
ChristiaanB
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