Laravel display a custom message in Maintenance Mode

Question

I'm checking out Laravel docs for Maintenance Mode:

https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/configuration#maintenance-mode

When you execute the command php artisan down, it will put the application under maintenance mode, and return the 503.blade.php view.

Works good, but there is an option I can't really make work.. when I do:

php artisan down --message='Upgrading Database' --retry=60

I want to display the message in the view, I tried accessing the obvious choice with {{ $message }} without success, returns undefined variable.

My question is: how to access it?

Answer 1

Actually you don't need that "json_decode" stuff, as all the "error" views (including 503.blade.php) have $exception variable.

So you may just use {{ $exception->getMessage() }} in your view and you will get the exact value that you have passed to artisan down --message command.