Laravel Artisan command to perform MySQL Dump using database connection information in the .env file. Posted 2016 Jan. Unsupported. 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 = config('database.connections.mysql.host');
        $username = config('database.connections.mysql.username');
        $password = config('database.connections.mysql.password');
        $database = config('database.connections.mysql.database');
        $port = config('database.connections.mysql.port');
        
        $process = new Process([
            'mysqldump',
            '-h', $host,
            '-P', $port,
            '-u', $username,
            '-p'.$password,
            $database,
        ]);
        $process->run();

         // Note: I actually use Storage::put() and a fixed filename to output, but for consistency with the rest of this Gist I've
         // put this untested version in:
         
        $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';

        file_put_contents($path, $process->getOutput());
    }
}