laravel 4.2 artisan command:name with arguments - php

Question

I have created an artisan command called sendUnreadNotifications this triggers the system to send users emails if they have unread notifications. Eventually this will be run via a cron job, and a user can either have hourly updates or daily updates.
For this reason I am wanting to send an argument with my command, something like this,
php artisan command:name sendUnreadNotifications H --env=local
However running this, I get the following error,
[RuntimeException]
Too many arguments.
My code, looks like this,
<?php
use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;
class sendUnreadNotifications extends Command {
/**
* The console command name.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $name = 'command:name';
/**
* The console command description.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $description = 'Command description.';
/**
* Create a new command instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
/**
* Execute the console command.
*
* #return mixed
*/
public function fire()
{
$request = Request::create('api/notifications/send/unread', 'GET', array($this->getArguments()));
Route::dispatch($request)->getContent();
}
/**
* Get the console command arguments.
*
* #return array
*/
protected function getArguments()
{
return array(
array('frequency', InputArgument::OPTIONAL, 'How often should the email be sent', 'H'),
);
}
/**
* Get the console command options.
*
* #return array
*/
protected function getOptions()
{
return array(
array('example', null, InputOption::VALUE_OPTIONAL, 'An example option.', null),
);
}
}
I cannot see why I would be getting the too many arguments exception?

Answer 1

You do only have one argument set, for frequency
protected function getArguments()
{
return array(
array('frequency', InputArgument::OPTIONAL, 'How often should the email be sent', 'H'),
);
}
so the
php artisan command:name sendUnreadNotifications H --env=local
here the H is the argument that is too much. You should change your command's name to what you want to do, the command names need to be unique btw...
Change this:
protected $name = 'command:name';
to
protected $name = 'send:unreadNotifications';
and run your job with
php artisan send:UnreadNotifications H
and it will work.