The command signature feature was introduced in Laravel version 5.1. In older versions of the framework the instance methods getArguments and getOptions were used to define the input expectations for commands. Both methods were expected to return...

The first step to creating custom commands is to generate the basic structure, or scaffolding, for the new command. This can be done by issuing the make:console Artisan command from the terminal. The make:console command accepts the name of the...

In practice, options can become long to type for the end user; this is partly a side effect of having to type the -- prefix along with the option name. To help alleviate this, options support shortcuts. In the previous example the --age option was...

So far we've looked at defining command arguments with either required or default values. Another useful thing is to make command arguments optional . By default, an argument with a default value is categorized as an optional argument. However,...

Each application contains a console kernel. The console kernel is defined in the app/Console/Kernel.php (this will be referred to as the application console kernel) file. The kernel class that exists in that file extends Laravel's console kernel...

Like the Artisan command-line application, Tinker provides many numerous commands and utilities that simplify the process of debugging and executing code from the command-line. The following table lists all the commands that Tinker provides (these...

The CategoriesFilter add-on is simply a custom Statamic Collection Filter that is really good at figuring out how articles on the site are related to one another based on their category. This is made simpler by the fact that I am limiting each...