Laravel 4: Deploy custom artisan command in package

Question

I have developed some custom artisan command for easier use with my package. Is it possible to include the artisan command into the package for easier deployment? If can, how?

Answer 1

Having a command set in your package structure:

You can, in your package Service Provider:

registerMyCommand();

        $this->commands('mycommand');
    }

    private function registerMyCommand()
    {
        $this->app['mycommand'] = $this->app->share(function($app)
        {
            return new MyCommand;
        });
    }

}

The trick is in the line

$this->commands('mycommand');

Which tells Laravel to add your command to the artisan list of commands available.