Here is a way to auto-register artisan commands. (This code was adapted from the Symfony Bundle auto-loader.)
function registerArtisanCommands($namespace = '', $path = 'app/commands')
{
$finder = new \Symfony\Component\Finder\Finder();
$finder->files()->name('*Command.php')->in(base_path().'/'.$path);
foreach ($finder as $file) {
$ns = $namespace;
if ($relativePath = $file->getRelativePath()) {
$ns .= '\\'.strtr($relativePath, '/', '\\');
}
$class = $ns.'\\'.$file->getBasename('.php');
$r = new \ReflectionClass($class);
if ($r->isSubclassOf('Illuminate\\Console\\Command') && !$r->isAbstract() && !$r->getConstructor()->getNumberOfRequiredParameters()) {
\Artisan::add($r->newInstance());
}
}
}
registerArtisanCommands();
If you put that in your start/artisan.php
file, all commands found in app/commands
will be automatically registered (assuming you follow Laravel's recommendations for command and file names). If you namespace your commands like I do, you can call the function like so:
registerArtisanCommands('App\\Commands');
(This does add a global function, and a better way to do this would probably be creating a package. But this works.)