Detect if running from the command line in Laravel 5

You can use the PHP function php_sapi_name (http://php.net/manual/en/function.php-sapi-name.php), to found out if the script was launched from a command or not.

In your case, you should check something like

if (strpos(php_sapi_name(), 'cli') !== false) {
    // Run from command
}

You may have to check the doc to find the proper value to check in each case though. (It may differ sometimes, but basically there should always be a different output from a script launched through a command)

Not sure about any prior versions but in Laravel 5.2 you can still do App::runningInConsole() although it's not mentioned in the documentation.

As of Laravel 5.1 this works... $app->runningInConsole() https://laravel.com/api/5.1/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.html

Basic usage:

if (! $app->runningInConsole()) {
 // do something
}

Anyone can use laravel app() helper function to avoid any namespace related issue. So to check if script is running in cli or browser, can be using this line of code app()->runningInConsole()

Basic usage:

if ( app()->runningInConsole() ){
    // it's console.
}