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
{
    /**
     * Define the application's command schedule.
     *
     * @param \Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule $schedule
     * @return void
     */
    protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
    {
        $schedule->command('mysql:dump')->weekly();
    }

    /**
     * Register the commands for the application.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    protected function commands()
    {
        $this->load(__DIR__.'/Commands');

        require base_path('routes/console.php');
    }
}

MySqlDump.php

<?php

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use Illuminate\Console\Command;

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

    /**
     * The console command description.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $description = 'Run mysqldump using environment variables';

    /**
     * Execute the console command.
     *
     * @return int
     */
    public function handle()
    {
        $database = env('DB_DATABASE');
        $host = env('DB_HOST');
        $password = env('DB_PASSWORD');
        $username = env('DB_USERNAME');

        $separator = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
        $password = $password ? " -p {$password}" : '';
        $file = date('Y-m-d-His-', time()) . $database . '.sql';
        $path = database_path() . $separator . 'dump' . $separator;

        $command = sprintf("mysqldump -h %s -u %s %s %s > %s", $host, $username, $password, $database, $path . $file);

        if (!is_dir($path)) {
            mkdir($path, 0722, true);
        }

        exec($command);

        $this->info("Created MySQL dump: {$file}");
    }
}