Importing namespaces in Laravel Tinker REPL

Question

Laravel's Tinker REPL is useful for conveniently experimenting with models, however it does not seem possible to import a namespace, requiring the model namespace to be laboriously typed. For instance, this works:

$ php artisan tinker
[1] $list = new mysweetapp\Todolist;
[2] > echo get_class($list);
mysweetapp\Todolist

This does not:

$ php artisan tinker
[1] use mysweetapp\Todolist;
// false
[2] $list = new Todolist;
[3] echo get_class($list);
Boris\EvalWorker

Is there some way to import namespaces into Tinker or is it just not yet supported? Mind you I definitely want to use namespaces, I just don't want to repeatedly type in the namespace. :-)

Answer 1

Look at this https://softonsofa.com/tinker-like-a-boss-in-psysh/

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You can't do this with use namespace in the repl itself, but here's what you may do:

// config/local/app.php
'aliases' => append_config([
    'Todolist'   => 'Mysweetapp\Todolist',
    ... // more
]),

Then in your local env you will be able to access your models without typing namespace, and if you're not in local env, then run tinker forcing it:

php artisan tinker --env=local