laravel/tinker

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Laravel Tinker is a powerful REPL (interactive shell) for the Laravel framework, built on top of the PsySH package. It lets developers interact with their Laravel application—models, config, services—from the command line via `php artisan tinker`.

Use cases

• interactively test Eloquent queries against my Laravel app
• run PHP code snippets in the context of my Laravel application
• experiment with Laravel models and services from the terminal
• debug application state without writing test scripts
• quickly create or update database records from the command line

When to choose

• you are developing a Laravel application and want an interactive shell
• you need to test Eloquent queries or framework features quickly
• you want to inspect or manipulate app data from the terminal

When to avoid

• you are not using the Laravel framework
• you need hot reloading, multiline editing, and autocompletion (consider Tinkerwell)
• you need a general-purpose PHP REPL outside Laravel (use PsySH directly)

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cli developer-tools developer-tools web-development php cli repl psysh laravel interactive-shell artisan command-line

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