Load Variables from array instead of .env file

[jan-di]

I am wondering if it is possible to load a list of key value pairs from an array instead of a file. To explain why I want to do this, i'll explain my use case (basicly caching the config to enable opcache performance gains):

First Request:

• Load/parse .env file normally
• (IF environment = production): Extract config as array (with toArray()) and store it as php file with var_export
• Populate $_ENV, $_SERVER, ...

Next Request:

• The .env file isn't parsed because the php-cache file with the array is required instead.
• A DotEnv Loader is created and filled with the variables from the cache file.
• Populate $_ENV, $_SERVER, ...

-> In both cases i could proceeed the same way, no matter where the variables came from (checking Expections, put them to $_ENV etc.).

Currently I haven't found a way to load the variables from an array to work with them the same way as I do with the .env-loaded variables.