Run Artisan commands from anywhere inside a Laravel Project Hierarchy.

Global Artisan

#! /bin/bash

# NOTE: Artisan commands are run relative to the actual location of the `artisan` file, regardless of your Working Directory.  This
# should have a negligible affect on functionality.

function artisan() {
        CURRENT=`pwd`
        FAIL=true
        
        #This assumes all the laravel project(s) are located somewhere within your home directory (i.e. /Users/JefferyWay/Code/Project)
        # Change out the $HOME variable as needed to represent project(s) root, or just use /
        while [ `pwd` != "$HOME" ]
        do
                if [ -f artisan ]; then
                        php artisan "$@"
                        FAIL=false
                        break;
                else
                        cd ..
                fi
        done
        cd $CURRENT

        if $FAIL ; then
                >&2 echo "No artisan command found.  Are you in a Laravel Project?"
                return 1
        fi
}

#This is not required, but demonstrates the use of the global artisan function (while also making a handy alias for tinker)
alias tinker="artisan tinker"