How to echo to console in Laravel and Artisan?
Don't know if you are using Laravel 3 or Laravel 4, and if its also possible in Laravel 3, but i found this in the docs.
$this->info('Creating sample users...');EDIT
If you switch to database seeds you can use this to display a message
$this->command->info('Creating sample users...');
This works for me
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput;class MigrateData { public function up() { $output = new ConsoleOutput(); for($i=0; $i<50000; $i++) { $output->writeln('Converting '.$i.' of 50000'); } }}I have a migration which is converting a large table into a more efficient format and use this to get some progress while it works.