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('migrate') in code (use this in a custom Artisan command) this doesn't return any message. It just executes the code without any feedback.

If I vardump() the result of the Artisan::call method it just returns an int(0)

Is it possible to get the response of the Artisan call method?

Answer 1

For me with Laravel 5.1 all this did not work but you can simply use:

Artisan::output()

Answer 2

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);