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:

<?php namespace App\Artisan;

use Illuminate\Console\Command;

class MyCommand extends Command {

    protected $name = 'mypackage:mycommand';

    protected $description = 'Nice description of my command.';

    public function fire()
    {
        /// do stuff
    }

}

You can, in your package Service Provider:

<?php namespace App;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use App\Artisan\MyCommand;

class MyServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider {

    public function register()
    {
        $this->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.