Defining console commands

[Jaspervv]

Is it possible to define console commands from within a plugin? And if so.. how?

The only way made this possible was by editing the themosis/themosis's App\Console\Kernel. But I would like the plugin to work independently.

[jlambe]

@Jaspervv Normally you should have access to the Command alias which lets you call commands defined from the root application.

Now for defining commands, I haven't extended the plugin manager for this but this can actually be a great feature addition. So yes, for now I think you can't define commands from the plugin.

[Jaspervv]

Thanks, I checked and calling commands can be done with

Console::call('key:generate');

For anyone coming across this in the future, be sure to check Laravel's Documentation.

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Implementing commands support for plugins requires more than I thought, php console never initialises WordPress, therefor plugins and the PluginLoader are never initialised either.

[jlambe]

The idea with plugin commands would be to be able to register commands within the application without having to load WordPress. WordPress will always try to look after a database and for running commands, it is not necessary.