Making a custom Artisan Command in Laravel 5.4

There are several default artisan commands that come with laravel, the common ones are php artisan serve,php artisan migrate, php artisan make:migration and the likes of them.

The more an application grows the more important it becomes to automate certain tasks. If you are a junior developer or an intern that doesn’t have access to a server to run some certain commands like running a migration, you’ll have to buzz the devops engineer to help you run a migration (after your code has been reviewed and merged to the live branch tho ). Automating these tasks will go a long way to help you and the devops engineer. With that being said we’ll go over making a custom laravel artisan command to add data to the DB(Database) in the following steps.

Step 1: Install Laravel.
Step 2: Run php artisan make:command userData.
Step 3: Create signature and description for your command in app/Console/Command.
Step 4: Add your command logic in the handle() function.

I’ll assume you have Laravel installed.

Open your terminal in your “project directory” and run the following command
php artisan make:command userData.

This command creates a file in the app/Console/Commands directory called userData.php which looks like:

If you run php artisan list in your terminal you will find out that our command does not exist yet, that's because it has not been registered. To register the command we'll navigate to app/Console and open up the Kernel.php file, we will then add this line of code Commands\userData::classto the $commands array defination. It should look like this:

So now if we run php artisan list we should see our command signature and description:

If you got this response Users data added. Can i get an Air five!!?.

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