Hook into laravel 4 artisan command

Question

Is there a way to hook into an artisan command easily? What I'm looking to accomplish is have a piece of code executed everytime the php artisan migrate command is executed.

Answer 1

Just add a listener some place in your code (even at the top of app/start/artisan.php) to listen for the 'artisan.start' event.

Event::listen('artisan.start', function($app)
{
    // $app is instance of Illuminate\Console\Application
    // since the $app hasn't figured the command yet you'll
    // have to do it yourself to check if it's the migrate command
});