Laravel Artisan command to perform MySQL Dump using database connection information in the .env file. Forked from https://gist.github.com/kkiernan/bdd0954d0149b89c372a

Kernel.php

<?php

namespace App\Console;

use Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel as ConsoleKernel;

class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel
{
    /**
     * The Artisan commands provided by your application.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $commands = [
        \App\Console\Commands\Inspire::class,
        
        // add the MySqlDump command here
        \App\Console\Commands\MySqlDump::class,
    ];

    // etc...
}

MySqlDump.php

<?php

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use Illuminate\Console\Command;

class MySqlDump extends Command
{
    /**
     * The name and signature of the console command.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $signature = 'db:dump';

    /**
     * The console command description.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $description = 'Runs the mysqldump utility using info from .env';

    /**
     * Execute the console command.
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle()
    {
        $ds = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

        $host = env('DB_HOST');
        $username = env('DB_USERNAME');
        $password = env('DB_PASSWORD');
        $database = env('DB_DATABASE');
        
        $ts = time();

        $path = database_path() . $ds . 'backups' . $ds . date('Y', $ts) . $ds . date('m', $ts) . $ds . date('d', $ts) . $ds;
        $file = date('Y-m-d-His', $ts) . '-dump-' . $database . '.sql';
        $command = sprintf('mysqldump -h %s -u %s -p\'%s\' %s > %s', $host, $username, $password, $database, $path . $file);

        if (!is_dir($path)) {
            mkdir($path, 0755, true);
        }

        exec($command);
    }
}