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

When the Artisan command output you want is issuing an echo.

You can access this type of output with ob_start and ob_get_clean.

For example, if your command echos JSON.

Artisan::command('myecho:command', function () {

    echo json_encode(config('myconfig'), true);

})->describe('outputs json');

Then you can access the JSON output by wrapping the command call in a buffer:

\ob_start();
\Artisan::call('myecho:command');
$output = \ob_get_clean();

var_dump($output);