Artisan Commands

Contents

• Help
• Application Configuration
• Sessions
• Migrations
• Bundles
• Tasks
• Unit Tests
• Routing
• Application Keys
• CLI Options

Help

Description	Command
View a list of available artisan commands.	php artisan help:commands

Application Configuration (More Information)

Description	Command
Generate a secure application key. An application key will not be generated unless the field in config/application.php is empty.	php artisan key:generate

Database Sessions (More Information)

Description	Command
Create a session table	php artisan session:table

Migrations (More Information)

Description	Command
Create the Laravel migration table	php artisan migrate:install
Creating a migration	php artisan migrate:make create_users_table
Creating a migration for a bundle	php artisan migrate:make bundle::tablename
Running outstanding migrations	php artisan migrate
Running outstanding migrations in the application	php artisan migrate application
Running all outstanding migrations in a bundle	php artisan migrate bundle
Rolling back the last migration operation	php artisan migrate:rollback
Roll back all migrations that have ever run	php artisan migrate:reset

Bundles (More Information)

Description	Command
Install a bundle	php artisan bundle:install eloquent
Upgrade a bundle	php artisan bundle:upgrade eloquent
Upgrade all bundles	php artisan bundle:upgrade
Publish a bundle assets	php artisan bundle:publish bundle_name
Publish all bundles assets	php artisan bundle:publish

Note: After installing you need to register the bundle

Tasks (More Information)

Description	Command
Calling a task	php artisan notify
Calling a task and passing arguments	php artisan notify taylor
Calling a specific method on a task	php artisan notify:urgent
Running a task on a bundle	php artisan admin::generate
Running a specific method on a bundle	php artisan admin::generate:list

Unit Tests (More Information)

Description	Command
Running the application tests	php artisan test
Running the bundle tests	php artisan test bundle-name

Routing (More Information)

Description	Command
Calling a route	php artisan route:call get api/user/1

Note: You can replace get with post, put, delete, etc.

Application Keys

Description	Command
Generate an application key	php artisan key:generate

Note: You can specify an alternate key length by adding an extra argument to the command.

CLI Options

Description	Command
Setting the Laravel environment	php artisan foo --env=local
Setting the default database connection	php artisan foo --database=sqlitename