What Are the Differences Between "Php Artisan Dump-Autoload" and "Composer Dump-Autoload"?

I am pretty new to Laravel 4 and Composer. While I do Laravel 4 tutorials, I couldn't understand the difference between those two commands; php artisan dump-autoload and composer dump-autoload What's the difference between them?

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Laravel's Autoload is a bit different:

  1. It will in fact use Composer for some stuff

  2. It will call Composer with the optimize flag

  3. It will 'recompile' loads of files creating the huge bootstrap/compiled.php

  4. And also will find all of your Workbench packages and composer dump-autoload them, one by one.

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php artisan dump-autoload was deprecated on Laravel 5, so you need to use composer dump-autoload

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composer dump-autoload

PATH vendor/composer/autoload_classmap.php
  • Composer dump-autoload won’t download a thing.
  • It just regenerates the list of all classes that need to be included in the project (autoload_classmap.php).
  • Ideal for when you have a new class inside your project.
  • autoload_classmap.php also includes the providers in config/app.php

php artisan dump-autoload

  • It will call Composer with the optimize flag
  • It will 'recompile' loads of files creating the huge bootstrap/compiled.php
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