Deactivate certain plugins in the development/staging environment of WP Engine

deactivate-plugins-wpe-staging.php

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Deactivate Certain Plugins - WPEngine Staging
Plugin URI: https://gist.github.com/subharanjanm/4272d25a446fb2ca12a549a4a5662633
Description: Deactivate certain plugins in the development/staging environment of WP Engine.
Version: 1.0
Author: Subharanjan
Author URI: https://gist.github.com/subharanjanm/4272d25a446fb2ca12a549a4a5662633
License: GPLv2
*/

/**
 * Deactivate some plugins in the development/staging environment.
 *
 * This is a "Must-Use" plugin. Code here is loaded automatically before
 * regular plugins load. This is the only place from which regular plugins
 * can be disabled/decativated programatically.
 *
 * Place this code in a file in WP_CONTENT_DIR/mu-plugins or specify a
 * custom location by setting the WPMU_PLUGIN_URL and WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR
 * constants in wp-config.php.
 *
 * This code depends on server environment variable `IS_WPE_SNAPSHOT`.
 * Also, you can use the variables like `HTTP_HOST` or `SERVER_NAME` to
 * check for development/staging environment.
 */

if ( getenv( 'IS_WPE_SNAPSHOT' ) == 1 ) {

	$plugins = array(
		'coschedule-by-todaymade/tm-scheduler.php',
		'google-analyticator/google-analyticator.php',
		'hubspot-tracking-code/hubspot-tracking-code.php',
	);

	require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/plugin.php' );

	deactivate_plugins( $plugins );

}

I forked this into a version that will disable plugins based upon the site's domain.

eg:
website.com = Active plugins.
website.stagingserver.com = Disabled plugins