How to print messages on console in Laravel?

Question

How do laravel print out some string on console when running php artisan serve? I tried Log::info but it isn't working.

Answer 1

You can call info() method

   $this->info("Your Message");

Answer 2

Laravel 5.6 simplified this because you now have a logging.php config file you could leverage.

The key thing to know is that you want to output to stdout and php has a stream wrapper built-in called php://stdout. Given that, you could add channel for that wrapper. You would add the stdout "channel" to your channels that you will be logging to.

Here's how the config will basically look:

<?php    

return [
  'default' => env('LOG_CHANNEL', 'stack'),

  'channels' => [
    'stack' => [
        'driver' => 'stack',
        'channels' => ['single','stdout'],
    ],

    'single' => [
        'driver' => 'single',
        'path' => storage_path('logs/laravel.log'),
        'level' => 'debug',
    ],

    'stdout' => [
        'driver' => 'monolog',
        'handler' => StreamHandler::class,
        'with' => [
            'stream' => 'php://stdout',
        ],
    ],
];

I have more information here - Laravel 5.6 - Write to the Console