What are the Differences Between "php artisan dump-autoload" and "composer dump-autoload"?

Question

I am pretty new to Laravel 4 and Composer. While I do Laravel 4 tutorials, I couldn't understand the difference between those two commands; php artisan dump-autoload and composer dump-autoload What's the difference between them?

Solution 1

Laravel's Autoload is a bit different:

1. It will in fact use Composer for some stuff

2. It will call Composer with the optimize flag

3. It will 'recompile' loads of files creating the huge bootstrap/compiled.php

4. And also will find all of your Workbench packages and composer dump-autoload them, one by one.

Solution 2

php artisan dump-autoload was deprecated on Laravel 5, so you need to use composer dump-autoload

Solution 3

composer dump-autoload

PATH vendor/composer/autoload_classmap.php

• Composer dump-autoload won’t download a thing.
• It just regenerates the list of all classes that need to be included in the project (autoload_classmap.php).
• Ideal for when you have a new class inside your project.
• autoload_classmap.php also includes the providers in config/app.php

php artisan dump-autoload

• It will call Composer with the optimize flag
• It will 'recompile' loads of files creating the huge bootstrap/compiled.php

Comments

[Jimmy Obonyo Abor]

just to point out though , php artisan dump-autoload is not included in L5

[mchomvu]

I got this message after running dump-autoload in console Class App\Http\Middleware\AdminRedirectIfAuthenticated located in ./app/Http/Middleware/AdminRedirectifAuthenticated.php does not comply with psr-4 autoloading standard. Skipping.

[woens]

But you still need to run composer dump-autoload as well as artisan dump-autoload in order to get all autoloads right. Example: After a migrate:make, you need a composer dump-autoload in order to do a migrate:rollback. artisan dump-autoload does not work here.

[rajangupta]

php artisan dump-autoload is deprecated on Laravel 5, so you need to use composer dump-autoload

[Brad Ahrens]

This is correct. For more information: laravel.com/docs/5.8/seeding#running-seeders

[Čamo]

Command "dump-autoload" is not defined. What it means?

[totymedli]

Did you really just copy-pasted the last points from Antonio's answer?