php artisan command not showing any errors

Are you running CentOS? Apparently they ship their cli php configured so that it can't display errors without forcing it to with a command line flag.

php -d display_errors artisan

You might want to make an alias for php that appends the display_errors flag..

in .bashrc or whereever you define your aliases;

alias phpe="php -d display_errors"

Then (after logging out and back in, or sourcing the file you just edited source .bashrc for example) you should be able to just do:

phpe artisan

and get errors displayed, or php artisan to not see errors.. if you always want to display errors, on the cli, no matter what.. just create the alias thusly:

alias php="php -d display_errors"

Thanks @willvincent, I'm running Mac OS X, I'll try your solution now.

Hmm.. interesting that you wouldn't be seeing errors in terminal on a mac.. Then again, I personally am running a new-ish version of php installed by homebrew, and may well have tweaked my config at some point. :)

Unfortunately php -d display_errors artisan did not work for me, I can't remember if I made any config changes, I'll try reinstall it to see if that works.

It turns out that there was no php.ini loaded in the system, I created one based on a sample and it worked. Thanks for the help @willvincent