Using verbose in Laravel artisan commands
Is there a way to detect what verbosity level the user has specified when creating a custom artisan command? I don't see anything about it in the docs. There's the getVerbosity() function in Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface and you can use $this->getOutput() to retrieve the output object. $verbosityLevel = $this->getOutput()->getVerbosity(); You then can compare the level to the constants defined inside OutputInterface . For example: if($verbosityLevel >= OutputInterface::VERBOSITY_VERBOSE){ // show verbose messages } You can use different verbosities as per the documentation: