Artisan + Phar = Artisonly (Standalone Commandline Toolbox)

You can use box2 and this modified version of laravel's lumen to pack the artisan file into a standalone command line tool(box) that you can put into your shell's search path. So you can call inspire wherever you are!

Installation

1. clone this project:

# https://github.com/svrnm/artisonly artisonly

2. Call composer from within the newly created directory:

# composer update

3. If not available, install box2 globally:

composer global require kherge/box --prefer-source

4. Create the artisan.phar binary:

# box build

5. If the build process succeeds, test if you can call inspire:

# ./artisan.phar inspire

6. Finally, if you like you can install it globally and call inspire:

# sudo cp ./artisan.phar /usr/local/bin/artisonly
# sudo ln /usr/local/bin/artisan.phar /usr/local/bin/inspire
# inspire

Usage

By default the (modified) artisan command does only provide a simple version of inspire. Unlikey laravel there is (currently) no convenient php artisan make:console command, but you can just copy (or rename) the inspire example:

# cp app/Console/Commands/Inspire.php app/Console/Commands/HelloWorld.php

Edit this file as you like and provide a unique signature:

protected $signature = 'hello-world';

Next you can build the artisan.phar using box build and if you like you can install your tools globally:

# sudo cp ./artisan.phar /usr/local/bin/artisonly
# sudo ln /usr/local/bin/artisan.phar /usr/local/bin/hello-world
# hello-world

License

This is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license