Laravel is a great framework to use for web applications but what if you need to do more? Come learn how to harness the power of the console in your Laravel applications to do various tasks such as caching data from 3rd party APIs, Expire old content from S3 or other data store, and batch process huge data sets without users having to wait for results. You can even automate tasks such as backing up your remote databases before you run migrations with artisan commands.

1. 20162016

2. Console Apps:
php artisan forthe:win
Joe Ferguson

3. Who Am I?
Joe Ferguson
PHP Developer
Engineer @ Aol.
Twitter: @JoePFerguson
Organizer of @MemphisPHP
OSMI Board Member
@NomadPHP Lightning Talks
Passionate about Community

4. Console Apps?!

5. Shouldn’t we be doing
this in __________ ?

6. Symfony Console
http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/console.html

7. Symfony Console

8. Artisan Console

9. Laravel Artisan
https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/artisan

10. Artisan Commands

11. Create a new Command

12. Create a new Command

13. app/Console/Kernel.php

14. BasicCommand.php

15. Signature

16. Description

17. Constructor

18. Handle The Command

19. Running our Command

20. Output Some Text

21. Output Some Text

22. Output Warning Text

23. Output Warning Text

24. Output Error Text

25. Output Error Text

26. How do we test the
Command?

27. BasicCommandTest

28. BasicCommandTest

29. Adding Checks

30. BasicCommandTest

31. Retrieving Input

32. Arguments

33. Arguments

34. Arguments

35. Arguments

36. Multiple Arguments

37. Multiple Arguments

38. Options

39. Options

40. Options

41. Options

42. Options

43. Prompt User For Input

44. Prompt User For Input

45. Prompt User For Input

46. Ask for Confirmation

47. Ask for Confirmation

48. Prompt User For Input

49. Database Backup

50. Create
DatabaseBackupCommand

51. app/Console/Commands

52. Don’t forget Kernel.php!

53. app/Console/Commands

54. Look for our Command

55. Write our handle()

56. Write our handle()

57. But we use RDS!

58. Command SnapshotRds

59. Write our __construct()

60. Write our handle()

61. Running Our Command

62. AWS Console

63. I can do that automatically…

64. What if you don’t use RDS?

65. spatie/laravel-backup

66. AWS S3 File Storage

67. Configure
S3ExampleCommand

68. List items in a bucket

69. List items in a bucket

70. Get an object by Key

71. Get an object by Key

72. Deleting old assets

73. Deleting old assets

74. Cache Data From APIs

75. Configure
CacheApiDataCommand

76. dms/meetup-api-client

77. meetupConnect()

78. handle()

79. Command Arguments

80. Default in $signature

81. We need a way to
persist the API data…

82. Database to the rescue!

83. Empty Migration

84. Event Details

85. Migration up()

86. Migration down()

87. Run Migrations

88. Create Meetup Model

89. Process the events

90. Check the database

91. Now we can pull events
from our database

92. Elasticsearch

93. Progress Bar

94. Progress Bar

95. Progress Bar

96. Table Layout

97. Table Layout

98. 20 Events is a pretty
small data set

99. GetAllMeetups*
*not all meetups

100. GetAllMeetups
Command

101. A larger meetup group

102. Update the handle()

103. Run our command

104. Check the database

105. Batch Process Large
Data Sets

106. Configure
BatchProcessCommand

107. handle()
BatchProcessCommand

108. Running meetup:expire

109. Schedule Our
Commands

110. artisan schedule:run

111. Scheduling Commands
app/Console/Kernel.php

112. Scheduling Commands

113. Real World Twitter
Demo

114. Questions?

115. Joe Ferguson
Twitter: @JoePFerguson
Email: joe@joeferguson.me
Freenode: joepferguson
Contact Info:
https://github.com/svpernova09/ConsoleAppsForTheWin