Run Laravel 5 seeder programmatically instead of from CLI

Question

Is there a way to run the Laravel 5 seeder from within PHP rather than from the command line. The hosting I am using doesn't allow me to use the command line. Just to confirm I want to do the equivalent of this but in my app code:

php artisan db:seed 

Answer 1

You can use the following method:

Artisan::call('db:seed'); 

To get the output of the last run command, you can use:

Artisan::output();