How to echo to console in Laravel and Artisan?

Question

I was curious, I\'m using Laravel and Artisan for my migrations. Is there a method to output information to the console? I can\'t seem to find any information on this. For examp

Answer 1

Since the chosen answer doesn't seem to work since 4.2, I say just keep it simple:

public function up() {
     // Migration runs //
     echo 'Records processed' . PHP_EOL;
}