How to display the output of the Laravel artisan command on the same line?

Question

I would like to display the processing using a simple series of points. It's simple in the browser, just do echo '.' , and it goes on one line, but how to do it on the same line when sending data to the artisan command line?

Each subsequent call to $this->info('.') Places a point on a new line.

Answer 1

The method information uses writeln, it adds a new line at the end, you need to use a record instead.

 //in your command $this->output->write('my inline message', false); $this->output->write('my inline message continues', false); 

Answer 2

There is probably a bit of a theme since you only want a series of dots. But you can easily imagine the progress bar in the wizard commands using the built-in functions in Laravel.

Declare a class variable as follows:

 protected $progressbar; 

And initialize the progress bar like this, say in the fire () method:

 $this->progressbar = $this->getHelperSet()->get('progress'); $this->progressbar->start($this->output, Model::count()); 

And then do something like this:

 foreach (Model::all() as $instance) { $this->progressbar->advance(); //do stuff before or after this } 

And complete the progress by doing this:

 $this->progressbar->finish(); 

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Update: for Laravel 5.1 + A simpler syntax is even more convenient:

• Initialize $bar = $this->output->createProgressBar(count($foo));
• Advance $bar->advance();
• Finish $bar->finish();

Answer 3

If you look at the source, you will see that $this->info is actually just a shortcut to $this->output->writeln : Source .

You can use $this->output->write('<info>.</info>') to make it inline.

If you use this often, you can create your own helper method, for example:

 public function inlineInfo($string) { $this->output->write("<info>$string</info>"); }