PHP: Handle secrets

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For production and staging environments, it is important to store sensitive data, like tokens and passwords, securely. Rather than hardcoding secrets in your repository, you might want to use environment variables. You can add these variables in the Stackhero dashboard, and then access them in your code. For example, if you create an environment variable called mySecret, you can retrieve it in PHP like this:

getenv("mySecret")