Laravel: Create a user from CLI with artisan

About this package 💡

This package is an easy way to create a user for a ci/cd workflow. Just setup your project as usual and create a new user by firing a cli-command.

Installation 💻

First things first, so require the package:

composer require spresnac/laravel-create-user-cli

Now, register the new command within your app\Console\Kernel.php

    protected $commands = [
        \spresnac\createcliuser\CreateCliUserCommand::class,
    ];

Usage 💪

This package is very simple to use, open up your console and type

php artisan user:create

When using it within some kind of continous deployment, use the parameter and options to get fully automated like

php artisan user:create "user_name" "user_email" "user_password" --force

One can get help with

php artisan help user:create

CI environments

This is an overview of all result codes you can handle in ci environements:

Code | Description -----| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 | all good 😃 1 | The user with this data is already existing and was not overwritten. Use the --force option to overwrite the user. 2 | There is a user exisiting with this data and there was a problem updating this database record. 5 | You should not get this code. If you do, you may have not provided all data correct.

Tests 🤓

Start the tests like standard with

composer test-ci

or with

vendor/bin/phpunit

Finally 🤩

... have fun ;)