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Question

I get an error when trying to use artisan command tinker. For example I would like to add a user. In my terminal I type

$ php artisan tinker 

Answer 1

Sometimes pcntl functions are disabled in some distros, so you have to

Find your cli's php.ini file

php --ini

Edit it that php.ini, usually you'll have to do

sudo gedit /etc/php5/cli/php.ini

or

sudo vim /etc/php5/cli/php.ini

and comment a line that starts with

; disable_functions = pcntl_alarm,pcntl_fork,pcntl_waitpid,...

You don't really have to comment it all, you can just enable pcntl functions, by removing them from that line, but if this is a development box, you can just enable everything.