Laravel Artisan Commands

Artisan is the command line tool used in Laravel framework. It offers a bunch of useful command that can help you develop application quickly.  Apart from Artisan available commands, you can create your own custom commands to improve your workflow. Artisan is driven by the powerful Symfony Console component.

If you have not installed laravel check my previous post on

How to Install Laravel 4 Framework

What is Composer and How to Manage Package Dependency through Composer

Laravel Artisan Available Commands

Let’s first check the artisan available commands. To check the available artisan command just type.

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Apart from using the available commands you can create your own commands.

How to Create New Artisan Custom Command

To create a new php artisan command. Type following

firstcommand is the name of command.

To define this command go to

Open this file and define command functionality in fire method. So whenever this command is executed fire method is called.

To make sure artisan know the newly created command Add the following line to your app/start/artisan.php file.

Conclusion

This is just an overview of available Artisan commands and how to create custom commands. In my next posts, i’ll explain how to create applications in Laravel framework and how artisan command help you to develop application quickly.

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