I’m writing a Custom Laravel Command that bundles some artisan commands:

class MyCommand extends Command { 
...
  public function handle() {
    //Call some php artisan commands...
    $this->call('config:clear')
    $this->call('migrate', [
      '--env' => 'testing',
    ])
    ...
  }
}

But I want to ensure it always runs using a specific .env file. But I found out that the ‘–env’ option get’s ignored inside the Command itself.

Is there a way to ‘load’ this specific ‘.env’ file?

I tried this, but it had no effect:

   $testingEnv = DotenvDotenv::createImmutable(base_path(), '.env.testing');
   $testingEnv->load();