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* Refactor: env * feat: add support for .env configuration files and dotenv integration * feat: add parameters configuration file creation to ScriptHandler * remove legacy public app files * fix: correct environment variable naming for parallel usage with phplist3 --------- Co-authored-by: Tatevik <tatevikg1@gmail.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR moves deployment defaults into ChangesEnvironment configuration migration
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participant Composer
participant ScriptHandler
participant DotenvFile
participant Bootstrap
participant ApplicationKernel
Composer->>ScriptHandler: run update-configuration
ScriptHandler->>DotenvFile: create /.env from /.env.dist
Bootstrap->>DotenvFile: load environment variables
Bootstrap->>ApplicationKernel: configure application
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283-285: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftHandle existing
.envfiles during upgrades.Preserving an existing file avoids overwriting deployment secrets, but it also prevents newly required keys from
.env.distfrom being added. Sinceconfig/parameters.ymlnow references those keys without inline fallbacks, older or partial.envfiles can leave required parameters unresolved. Add a merge/validation step or document an explicit upgrade procedure.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@src/Composer/ScriptHandler.php` around lines 283 - 285, Update the existing `.env` handling in the upgrade flow so an early return from the file-exists check no longer skips required-key validation and incorporation of newly introduced values from `.env.dist`. Preserve existing deployment secrets while merging only missing required keys, or invoke the project’s established validation/upgrade mechanism to ensure parameters referenced by `config/parameters.yml` are resolved.
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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In @.env.dist:
- Around line 55-57: Update the environment-loading flow around
loadEnvironmentVariables so .env.dist remains template-only and PHPLIST_SECRET
never accepts the literal “%s” placeholder. Require a non-placeholder generated
or explicitly supplied secret, and fail fast when it is missing before security
tokens are used.
In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 13: Update the changelog entry to reference the current parameters
template path, config/parameters.yml, or explicitly state that
config/parameters.yml.dist was renamed to config/parameters.yml; keep the
description of defaults moving to .env.dist unchanged.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/Composer/ScriptHandler.php`:
- Around line 283-285: Update the existing `.env` handling in the upgrade flow
so an early return from the file-exists check no longer skips required-key
validation and incorporation of newly introduced values from `.env.dist`.
Preserve existing deployment secrets while merging only missing required keys,
or invoke the project’s established validation/upgrade mechanism to ensure
parameters referenced by `config/parameters.yml` are resolved.
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- 4: https://github.com/symfony/dotenv/blob/7.0/Dotenv.php
- 5: https://symfony.com/blog/improvements-to-the-handling-of-env-files-for-all-symfony-versions
- 6: https://symfony.com/doc/current/configuration.html
- 7: [DotEnv] loading priority and overriding symfony/symfony#31579
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- 1: [Dotenv] load .env.dist when it exists and .env is not found symfony/symfony#29171
- 2: https://www.bookstack.cn/read/symfony-v4.3/a0a0a71bb19122c0.md
- 3: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/5.4/src/Symfony/Component/Dotenv/Dotenv.php
- 4: [Dotenv] add loadEnv(), a smoother alternative to loadForEnv() symfony/symfony#29129
- 5: Dotenv loadEnv() method not available symfony/recipes#505
- 6: [DotEnv] loading priority and overriding symfony/symfony#31579
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Citations:
- 1: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/6.0/src/Symfony/Component/Dotenv/Dotenv.php
- 2: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/7.2/src/Symfony/Component/Dotenv/Dotenv.php
- 3: https://github.com/symfony/dotenv/blob/7.0/Dotenv.php
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loadEnvironmentVariables() also triggers Dotenv when .env.dist exists, and Symfony Dotenv will load .env.dist if .env is absent. Since PHPLIST_SECRET=%s, anyone missing Composer script output can run with the literal template value as the signing secret. Keep .env.dist strictly template-only and fail fast unless a real generated/supplied secret exists.
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
In @.env.dist around lines 55 - 57, Update the environment-loading flow around
loadEnvironmentVariables so .env.dist remains template-only and PHPLIST_SECRET
never accepts the literal “%s” placeholder. Require a non-placeholder generated
or explicitly supplied secret, and fail fast when it is missing before security
tokens are used.
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| - `symfony/dotenv` support: configuration values are now read from a `.env` file (generated from `.env.dist` on install/update), in addition to real environment variables (#TBD) | ||
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| - `config/parameters.yml.dist` no longer contains inline `env(VAR): default` fallbacks; defaults now live in `.env.dist` (#TBD) |
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Use the current parameters template path.
This entry names config/parameters.yml.dist, while the migrated template and ScriptHandler now use config/parameters.yml. Use the current path or explicitly describe the rename.
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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In `@CHANGELOG.md` at line 13, Update the changelog entry to reference the current
parameters template path, config/parameters.yml, or explicitly state that
config/parameters.yml.dist was renamed to config/parameters.yml; keep the
description of defaults moving to .env.dist unchanged.
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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Inline comments:
In @.env.dist:
- Line 19: Replace the usable PHPLIST_ADMIN_PASSWORD value in the environment
template with a non-operational placeholder, and update the bootstrap logic
around the .env fallback (the code loading .env.dist near Bootstrap
initialization) to fail fast when that placeholder or an otherwise missing
deployment password is used, ensuring deployment must provide a strong
administrator password.
In `@src/Domain/Identity/Command/ImportDefaultsCommand.php`:
- Line 26: Update the default-user existence check in ImportDefaultsCommand to
recognize both the current DEFAULT_LOGIN value “test1” and the legacy “admin”
login before prompting or creating a user. Preserve the existing behavior for
fresh installations while preventing creation of a duplicate superuser when
either default account already exists.
- Line 26: Update the fallback prompt in ImportDefaultsCommand to interpolate
the `$login` value instead of hardcoding “admin”, so it reflects the
DEFAULT_LOGIN constant and any supplied login.
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- config/parameters.yml
| PHPLIST_DATABASE_PASSWORD=phplist | ||
| DATABASE_PREFIX=phplist_ | ||
| LIST_TABLE_PREFIX=listattr_ | ||
| PHPLIST_ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin |
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Do not ship a usable default administrator password.
When .env is absent, src/Core/Bootstrap.php:162-170 loads .env.dist. This can make admin the administrator password. Replace this value with a non-operational placeholder and fail fast until deployment provides a strong password. Alternatively, stop loading .env.dist as a runtime fallback.
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-PHPLIST_ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin
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In @.env.dist at line 19, Replace the usable PHPLIST_ADMIN_PASSWORD value in the
environment template with a non-operational placeholder, and update the
bootstrap logic around the .env fallback (the code loading .env.dist near
Bootstrap initialization) to fail fast when that placeholder or an otherwise
missing deployment password is used, ensuring deployment must provide a strong
administrator password.
| class ImportDefaultsCommand extends Command | ||
| { | ||
| private const DEFAULT_LOGIN = 'admin'; | ||
| private const DEFAULT_LOGIN = 'test1'; |
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Check legacy default users before creating test1.
phplist:defaults:import only looks for loginName = 'test1', so an existing installation with the previous default admin will prompt and create a second superuser with the default password. Treat admin as a legacy default or only run this command on fresh/empty admin tables.
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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In `@src/Domain/Identity/Command/ImportDefaultsCommand.php` at line 26, Update the
default-user existence check in ImportDefaultsCommand to recognize both the
current DEFAULT_LOGIN value “test1” and the legacy “admin” login before
prompting or creating a user. Preserve the existing behavior for fresh
installations while preventing creation of a duplicate superuser when either
default account already exists.
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Update the fallback prompt for the new login.
DEFAULT_LOGIN is now test1, but the prompt at Line 53 still says admin. Build the prompt from $login.
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- $question = new Question('Enter password for default admin (login "admin"): ');
+ $question = new Question(sprintf('Enter password for default admin (login "%s"): ', $login));🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/Domain/Identity/Command/ImportDefaultsCommand.php` at line 26, Update the
fallback prompt in ImportDefaultsCommand to interpolate the `$login` value
instead of hardcoding “admin”, so it reflects the DEFAULT_LOGIN constant and any
supplied login.
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