Laravel Environment Detection For Mac

laravel-detect-env

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Detect The Application Environment
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Laravel takes a dead simple approach to your application environments
| so you can just specify a machine name for the host that matches a
| given environment, then we will automatically detect it for you.
|
*/

$env = $app->detectEnvironment(array(

	'local' => array('*.local'),

));

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gethostname.php