Laravel Create Custom Artisan Command

Hello today we are going to talk about how to create custom command Artisan to perform a specific task. Actually, there are built-in Artisan command in Laravel application, example if we want to start Laravel server then we will type command "php artisan serve". But for today I will show you how do we create own command to generate specific dummy users data with our own command artisan base on value input.

How to Create Custom Artisan Command

• Step 1- Install Laravel
• Step 2 - Configure DB Connection
• Step 3 - Setup Cutom Command Artisan
• Step 4 - Test Command

Step 1 - Install Laravel

This step you will install Laravel with composer, so let's try command below to download fresh Laravel

composer create-project laravel/laravel LaravelApp

cd LaravelApp

Step 2 - Configure DB Connection

Now we are going to configure database connection, so in Laravel root directory you will see a file named .env. and find the below keys and modified following credential

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=your_database_name
DB_USERNAME=your_database_username
DB_PASSWORD=your_database_password

Step 3 - Setup Cutom Command Artisan

This step we are going to create a file command, so execute following command to generate a file and we are going to implement in next step.

php artisan make:command createUsers

The command will create a new file, so open that file and modified as below code

Open file app -> Console -> Commands -> createUsers.php

<?php

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Console\Command;

class createUsers extends Command
{
    protected $signature = 'create:users {value}';

    protected $description = 'Command description show in help';

    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public function handle()
    {
        $usersNum = $this->argument('value');
        for ($i = 0; $i < $usersNum ; $i++) 
        {
            User::factory()->create();
        }
    }
}

Step 4 - Test Command

We are going to test the command if it work so we will create 20 new dummy users data in database by following command:

php artisan create:users 20

In database you will see in table user will contain 20 sample records of users

Thank you for come and read today. Please have a nice day!!

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