Generate Controller and Model

Question

I am newbie with Laravel and I played around laravel 4(Beta version). I want to know how to generate Controller and Model by command line use php artisan. But I don't know how to do them.

Answer 1

See this video: http://youtu.be/AjQ5e9TOZVk?t=1m45s You can do php artisan list to view all commands, The command for generating REST-ful controllers is controller:make You can view the usage with: php artisan help make:controller

Answer 2

Laravel 5

The other answers are great for Laravel 4 but Laravel 5 is here! We now have the ability to generate all kinds of stuff by default. Run php artisan help to view all artisan commands. Here are all of the make commands:

make   make:command         Create a new command class   make:console         Create a new Artisan command   make:controller      Create a new resource controller class   make:event           Create a new event class   make:middleware      Create a new middleware class   make:migration       Create a new migration file   make:model           Create a new Eloquent model class   make:provider        Create a new service provider class   make:request         Create a new form request class 

Note: we no longer use item:make. Instead we now have make:item.

Run php artisan help make:item to see what you can pass it. For instance php artisan help make:migration shows that we need to pass it the migration name but we can also pass it --create="" or --table="" to specify the table name to create or modify respectively. Run php artisan make:migration create_articles_table --create="articles" to generate the articles table. Moreover, generating models takes care of generating the migration for that model. Follow the naming conventions and it will be pluralized it for the migration.