Manually register a user in Laravel

I think you want to do this once-off, so there is no need for something fancy like creating an Artisan command etc. I would suggest to simply use php artisan tinker (great tool!) and add the following commands per user:

$user = new App\User();$user->password = Hash::make('the-password-of-choice');$user->email = 'the-email@example.com';$user->name = 'My Name';$user->save();

This is an old post, but if anyone wants to do it with command line, in Laravel 5.*, this is an easy way:

php artisan tinker

then type (replace with your data):

DB::table('users')->insert(['name'=>'MyUsername','email'=>'thisis@myemail.com','password'=>Hash::make('123456')])

Yes, the best option is to create a seeder, so you can always reuse it.

For example, this is my UserTableSeeder:

class UserTableSeeder extends Seeder {public function run() {    if(env('APP_ENV') != 'production')    {        $password = Hash::make('secret');        for ($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++)        {            $users[] = [                'email' => 'user'. $i .'@myapp.com',                'password' => $password            ];        }        User::insert($users);    }}

After you create this seeder, you must run composer dumpautoload, and then in your database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php add the following:

class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder{    /**     * Run the database seeds.     *     * @return void     */    public function run()    {        Model::unguard();        $this->call('UserTableSeeder');     }}

Now you can finally use php artisan db:seed --class=UserTableSeeder every time you need to insert users in the table.