Get response from Artisan call

Question

When I run in terminal php artisan migrate this results in \'Nothing to migrate\' when indeed there is nothing to migrate.

When I use Artisan::call(\'

Answer 1

I'm able to get the output of Artisan::call() with the via the following:

use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\StreamOutput;

$stream = fopen("php://output", "w");
Artisan::call("migrate", array(), new StreamOutput($stream));

var_dump($stream);