How to echo to console in Laravel and Artisan?

Question

I was curious, I\'m using Laravel and Artisan for my migrations. Is there a method to output information to the console? I can\'t seem to find any information on this. For examp

Answer 1

This works for me

use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput;

class MigrateData {

    public function up()
    {
        $output = new ConsoleOutput();

        for($i=0; $i<50000; $i++)
        {
             $output->writeln('Converting '.$i.' of 50000');
        }
     }
}

I have a migration which is converting a large table into a more efficient format and use this to get some progress while it works.