Laravel 4 - Creating an artisan command

Question

This is my first attempt to create an artisan command, which should be responsible for executing another php function. All I did so far is to create the command with: php artisan command:make PutItemsBackInStock and created the skeleton for the command. Also, I added the command in app/start/artisan.php so Laravel knows about it.

Then in PutItemsBackInStock file I declared a private function:

private function updateItemQty() { ... }

And under the public function fire() I tried to call it:

$this->updateItemQty();

This is probably not the right way to do it, while I got that error:

[RuntimeException] Not enough arguments.

Then I removed the blocks for the protected functions getArguments() and getOptions() which removed that error but still the function is not firing.

The question is: How can I get an artisan command to execute another function?

Laurence · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-20 15:28:49Z

2

It looks as though you've not set the arguements correctly. You need to have your command setup something like this:

protected $name = 'your:command';

public function fire()
{
    $this->updateItemQty();
}

protected function getArguments()
{
    return [];
}

protected function getOptions()
{
    return [];
}

private function updateItemQty() { ... }

answered Mar 20, 2015 at 15:28

Laurence

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