MAMP with Laravel Unix Socket

Question

I'm working with MAMP on my local development server on my laravel application and I'm trying to figure out how I can safely setup my server so I don't have to use the following into the database connections mysql array because that should only be used when I'm on my development server. It works when I add the line into the mysql array however that isn't used if I was on a production server. Any ideas?

'unix_socket'   => '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock',

.env.development.php

<?php

return [
    'DB_HOST' => '127.0.0.1',
    'DB_USERNAME' => 'root',
    'DB_PASSWORD' => '1234',
    'DB_NAME' => 'mytable'
];

app/config/database.php

'connections' => array(

        'mysql' => array(
            'driver'    => 'mysql',
            'host'      => getenv('DB_HOST'),
            'database'  => getenv('DB_NAME'),
            'username'  => getenv('DB_USERNAME'),
            'password'  => getenv('DB_PASSWORD'),
            'charset'   => 'utf8',
            'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
            'prefix'    => '',
        ),

Answer 1

There is even simple solution. add this to ur .env file

DB_HOST=localhost;unix_socket=/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock