Run artisan directly in Windows

It's probably because your PHP paths are removed. What happens if you type php -v in command prompt?

Edit: If your problems are with PHP, you can remove PHP and/or reinstall it from http://windows.php.net/download#php-7.0 (PHP 7.x 64-bit recommended)

@SaeedPrez - PHP is in my path, and I'm using EasyPHP, so it's a portable install.

Edit: If I'm remembering correctly, I'm sure I created a cmd file to get this done, but can't seem to find that file anymore... So I could be wrong.

Ah I see, you had some doskey aliases configured, I use them as well.

Do you remember where you had your aliases? If so, you can edit your CMD shortcut to something like this..

cmd.exe /k c:\path\to\aliases.cmd

When I open a new CMD tab..

@SaeedPrez - Unfortunately, I don't remember exactly what I did. Would this work if I renamed artisan? I'm building a data platform for a client at the moment, and have renamed this to lumo - that worked out of the box without me having to manually add an alias...

Take a look at this page..

http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-set-aliases-for-the-command-prompt-in-windows/

Okay, so that would mean I have to define an alias for each of my renamed artisans... Not how I had it before, but could work fine for now. Thanks.

Well, I'm assuming you had something installed that created the shortcuts for you..

I have it setup like this..

doskey pa=php artisan $*
doskey pu=.\vendor\bin\phpunit $*

So I can do..

pa
pa route:list
pa migrate

pu
pu tests/sometest.php

You can create your own shortcuts, whatever helps your workflow.

Yeah, thanks - will work with this for now, until I find the magic method used before. :-)

http://php.net/manual/it/install.windows.commandline.php

no windows on me so can't test :(

Just struck me: I'm sure I did something to support shebangs in Windows, but all the articles I've read don't seem to be what I had before. Nonetheless, still can't be sure 100% what I did to get this to work.

http://www.uniformserver.com/ZeroXI_documentation/perl_unix_windows_shebang.html

Not exactly it, but its late here. I need to do this on my Win box too. 99% Mac development.