Using Artisan call to pass non-option arguments

Question

In the shell I can create a database migration (for example) like so:

./artisan migrate:make --table="mytable" mymigration

Using Artisan::call() I can't work out how to pass a non-argument parameter ("mymigration" in this example). I have tried many variants of the code below:

Artisan::call('db:migrate', ['--table' => 'mytable', 'mymigration'])

Anyone got any ideas? I have been using shell_exec('./artisan ...') in the meantime but I'm not happy with the approach.

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

Use:

Artisan::call('db:migrate', ['' => 'mymigration', '--table' => 'mytable']) 

should work.

Incidentally db:migrate isn't an artisan command out of the box. 

Hope it helps!!
Thank you!!