1. Console
  2. Command List

October CMS includes several command-line interface (CLI) commands and utilities that allow you to manage various aspects of the platform, as well as speed up the development process. The console commands are based on Laravel's Artisan tool. You may develop your own console commands or speed up development with the provided scaffolding commands.

Setup & Maintenance

System Update

The october:update command will request updates from the October gateway. It will update the core application and plugin files, then perform a database migration.

php artisan october:update

Database Migration

The october:migrate command will perform a database migration, creating database tables and executing seed scripts, provided by the system and plugin version history. The migration command can be run multiple times, it will only execute a migration or seed script once, which means only new changes are applied.

php artisan october:migrate

The --rollback option will reverse all migrations, dropping database tables and deleting data. Care should be taken when using this command. The plugin refresh command is a useful alternative for debugging a single plugin.

php artisan october:migrate --rollback

Change Backend User Password

The october:passwd command allows the password of a backend administrator to be changed via the command line. This is useful if you are locked out of your October CMS install, or for changing the password for the default administrator account.

php artisan october:passwd username password

For the first argument you may pass either the login name or email address. For the second argument you may optionally pass the desired password, otherwise you will be prompted to enter one.

Project Management

October CMS includes these commands for managing your project.

Synchronize Project

project:sync installs all plugins and themes belonging to a project.

php artisan project:sync

Set Project

project:set sets the license key for the current installation.

php artisan project:set <license key>

Plugin Management

October CMS includes a number of commands for managing plugins.

Install Plugin

plugin:install - downloads and installs the plugin by its name. The next example will install a plugin called AuthorName.PluginName.

php artisan plugin:install AuthorName.PluginName

You may install a plugin from a remote source using the --from option.

php artisan plugin:install AuthorName.PluginName --from=git@github.com:authorname/pluginname-plugin.git

Use the --want option to specify a target branch or version.

php artisan plugin:install AuthorName.PluginName --from=git@github.com:authorname/pluginname-plugin.git --want=dev-develop

Use the --oc option if your package name has the oc prefix.

php artisan plugin:install AuthorName.PluginName --from=git@github.com:authorname/pluginname-plugin.git --oc

Check Dependencies

plugin:check - performs a system wide check of installed plugin dependencies. This command will spin over every theme and plugin that is currently installed and check to see if its dependencies are also installed. If it finds any missing requirements, it will attempt to install them.

php artisan plugin:check

Refresh Plugin

plugin:refresh - destroys the plugin's database tables and recreates them. This command is useful for development.

php artisan plugin:refresh AuthorName.PluginName

Use the --rollback option to only destroy the database tables without recreating them.

php artisan plugin:refresh AuthorName.PluginName --rollback

You may also specify a version number with the --rollback option to stop at a specified version.

php artisan plugin:refresh AuthorName.PluginName --rollback=1.0.3

List Plugins

plugin:list - Displays a list of installed plugins and their version numbers.

php artisan plugin:list

Disable Plugin

plugin:disable - Disable an existing plugin.

php artisan plugin:disable AuthorName.PluginName

Enable Plugin

plugin:enable - Enable a disabled plugin.

php artisan plugin:enable AuthorName.PluginName

Remove Plugin

plugin:remove - destroys the plugin's database tables and deletes the plugin files from the filesystem.

php artisan plugin:remove AuthorName.PluginName

Theme Management

October includes a number of commands for managing themes.

Install Theme

theme:install - download and install a theme from the Marketplace. The following example will install the theme in /themes/authorname-themename

php artisan theme:install AuthorName.ThemeName

You may install a theme from a remote source using the --from option.

php artisan theme:install AuthorName.ThemeName --from=git@github.com:authorname/themename-theme.git

Use the --want option to specify a target branch or version.

php artisan theme:install AuthorName.ThemeName --from=git@github.com:authorname/themename-theme.git --want=dev-develop

Use the --oc option if your package name has the oc prefix.

php artisan theme:install AuthorName.ThemeName --from=git@github.com:authorname/oc-themename-theme.git --oc

Check Protected

theme:check - performs a system wide check of themes to see if they should be flagged read-only and protected from changes. This command will spin over every theme and check if it has been installed with composer, if so, a theme lock file is added and a child theme is created.

php artisan theme:check

List Themes

theme:list - list installed themes.

php artisan theme:list

Enable Theme

theme:use - switch the active theme. The following example will switch to the theme in /themes/rainlab-vanilla

php artisan theme:use vanilla

Remove Theme

theme:remove - delete a theme. The following example will delete the directory /themes/rainlab-vanilla

php artisan theme:remove vanilla

Copy Theme

theme:copy - duplicates an existing theme to create a new one, including the creation of child themes.

php artisan theme:copy demo

The above command will create a new theme called demo-copy by copying the directory and its contents. The .themelock file will be removed during this process.

To specify the new directory name, such as mydemo, you may supply this a second argument.

php artisan theme:copy demo mydemo

To create a child theme that inherits the parent theme, specify the --child option.

php artisan theme:copy demo mychild --child

Utilities

October CMS includes a number of utility commands.

Clear Application Cache

cache:clear - clears the application, twig and combiner cache directories. Example:

php artisan cache:clear

Remove Demo Data

october:fresh - removes the demo theme and plugin that ships with October CMS.

php artisan october:fresh

Mirror Public Directory

october:mirror - will mirror all asset and resource files to the public folder using symbolic linking.

php artisan october:mirror

If you want to specify a custom folder, you can pass it as the second argument, which is relative to the base directory.

php artisan october:mirror mypublicfolder

Miscellaneous Commands

october:util - a generic command to perform general utility tasks, such as cleaning up files or combining files. The arguments passed to this command will determine the task used.

Compile Assets

Outputs combined system files for JavaScript (js), StyleSheets (less), client side language (lang), or everything (assets).

php artisan october:util compile assets
php artisan october:util compile lang
php artisan october:util compile js
php artisan october:util compile less

To combine without minification, pass the --debug option.

php artisan october:util compile js --debug

Pull All Repos

This will execute the command git pull on all theme and plugin directories.

php artisan october:util git pull

Purge Thumbnails

Deletes all generated thumbnails in the uploads directory.

php artisan october:util purge thumbs

Purge Uploads

Deletes files in the uploads directory that do not exist in the system_files table.

php artisan october:util purge uploads

Purge Orphans

Deletes records in system_files table that do not belong to any other model.

php artisan october:util purge orphans

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