How to composer dump-autload in PHP

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Route::get('/updateapp', function()
{
    exec('composer dump-autoload');
    echo 'composer dump-autoload complete';
});

Or

exec('composer dump-autoload'); // if you're not planning to access it through a route.

I get the following error

Command "dump-autoload" is not defined

I am using Laravel 5.

use exec() system() or passthrough()

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

But dump-autoload is not an artisan command. It's a composer command. Wasn't there an exec() function in php which runs commands in the command line? Check Scheduler Behind the Scenes lesson about that.

Try this:

exec('/usr/bin/php '.base_path().'/artisan dump-autoload');

I ended up using the following

system('composer dump-autoload');

And it worked perfect. Thanks for all your help.

Check my answer about it on http://stackoverflow.com/a/42555169/6729812 without using exec() or system()