# Artisan Tinker to inject first user during install of Laravel/Composer app **URL:** \ **Category:** Contribute Room\ **Tags:** package, composer, laravel, english\ **Created:** [March 3, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/artisan-tinker-to-inject-first-user-during-install-of-laravel-composer-app/35746 "2025-03-03T14:52:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wbk](https://forum.yunohost.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/e0b2c6/32.png) [@wbk](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/wbk)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/artisan-tinker-to-inject-first-user-during-install-of-laravel-composer-app/35746/1 "2025-03-03T14:52:39Z")
Hi all, With help from the forum, my package is progressing bit by bit. Most things work now, but one thing is causing some trouble: creating the first/single user during install. The app is built on Laravel/Composer, Artisan Tinker provides a way to insert a user into the app via the command line. The command runs fine if I run it manually after installation, but integrating the command into the install script makes the install break at that point. Here in an excerpt from [the install log](https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/domoguvaza): ```auto Info: DEBUG - Database\Seeders\LabelsSeeder ......................................................................... RUNNING Info: DEBUG - Database\Seeders\LabelsSeeder ....................................................................... 5 ms DONE Info: DEBUG - Info: DEBUG - + php artisan tinker Info: DEBUG - = App\Models\User {#6290 Info: DEBUG - name: "testuser", Info: DEBUG - email: "testuser@domain.tld", Info: DEBUG - #password: "$2y$10$vkJ19Qa8.mOUbMK7Ed3kmuDgtmJFOrtrV3UbkgjLBjkniJ6LeZkOO", Info: DEBUG - api_token: " **********", Info: DEBUG - updated_at: "2025-03-03 14:36:46", Info: DEBUG - created_at: "2025-03-03 14:36:46", Info: DEBUG - id: 1, Info: DEBUG - } Info: DEBUG - Info: DEBUG - + ynh_exit_properly Warning: Removing the app after installation failure… Info: [++++++++++..........] > Removing system configurations related to my_idlers... Info: [####################] > Removal of my_idlers completed ``` The corresponding commands in the [install script](https://forge.osba.nl/wbk/my_idlers_ynh/src/branch/development/scripts/install) are: ```auto "php$php_version" artisan migrate:fresh --seed -n --force echo "use App\Models\User; User::create(['name' => '$user', 'email' => '$email' , 'password' => bcrypt ('$password'), 'api_token' => '$token']); " | php artisan tinker "php$php_version" artisan config:clear -n ``` At first I had the `echo "use App\... tinker`-line under the other artisan lines; in that case config:clear runs fine and it still breaks on the `tinker` line after that. As you see in the log, the command gets executed, it is after immediately that that the install gets broken off. I may be blissfully using the wrong technique to populate the database with a first user; if so, please guide me in the right direction! As an aside, last days I pushed my changes to Github as well, but this morning Github declared my public key invalid. I haven’t looked into the cause yet. How do you guys push changes to Github? ---
**Author:** ![jarod5001](https://forum.yunohost.org/user_avatar/forum.yunohost.org/jarod5001/32/5323_2.png) [@jarod5001](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/jarod5001)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/artisan-tinker-to-inject-first-user-during-install-of-laravel-composer-app/35746/2 "2025-03-03T15:24:24Z")
May be using [ynh\_hide\_warnings](https://doc.yunohost.org/en/packaging_apps_helpers_v2.1#ynh-exec-and-print-stderr) Interesting way of creating the first user. Does this app have a command line tool? As you may have noticed, lychee has a lot of commands that have been created by the dev. Otherwise, is it possible to create the user from the Web interface? You can use [ynh\_local\_curl](https://doc.yunohost.org/en/packaging_apps_helpers_v2.1#ynh-local-curl) For pushing changes to github, I work mainly on the web interface of github and sometimes on my phone (which is a pain)… Otherwise, I have used vscodium with git extension. It’s great. ---
**Author:** ![wbk](https://forum.yunohost.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/e0b2c6/32.png) [@wbk](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/wbk)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/artisan-tinker-to-inject-first-user-during-install-of-laravel-composer-app/35746/3 "2025-03-03T16:21:36Z")
Hey, thanks! > [@jarod5001](#): > > Otherwise, I have used vscodium with git extension. It’s great. I hadn’t heard of VSCodium before, I’ll look into it! The app relies on the framework for interaction, which works quite nicely, but no direct command line interface. Hiding warnings could help getting through the install, but there doesn’t seem to be a warning other than command feedback. `ynh_local_curl` seems a better solution, keeping it in line with YNH tools and in line with normal use of the app. Come to think of it, I inject the user to have the app ready to use, but while writing this, I realize that _maybe_ it is better to let the user create the credentials by themselves at the webinterface of the app. Any password vault will have less trouble relating the credentials to the app that way. Any suggestion on that? In case I leave out injecting the user, the package is ready to fly the nest. It can be found at [GitHub - w-b-k/my\_idlers\_ynh at development](https://github.com/w-b-k/my_idlers_ynh/tree/development) ; where do I take it from here? ---
**Author:** ![jarod5001](https://forum.yunohost.org/user_avatar/forum.yunohost.org/jarod5001/32/5323_2.png) [@jarod5001](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/jarod5001)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/artisan-tinker-to-inject-first-user-during-install-of-laravel-composer-app/35746/4 "2025-03-03T19:12:24Z")
> [@wbk](#): > > Any suggestion on that? Make it work then add other options. > [@wbk](#): > > where do I take it from here? You have to change ownership of the repo to yunohost organization. And about the branches of the repo, there are two mandatory : master and testing. You can add more in case you are trying to add things then PR to testing. Don’t forget the doc folder. Since you are letting the user register himself in the app, you can add notes in the preinstall and postinstall. Delete unnecessary files. ---
**Author:** ![wbk](https://forum.yunohost.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/e0b2c6/32.png) [@wbk](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/wbk)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/artisan-tinker-to-inject-first-user-during-install-of-laravel-composer-app/35746/5 "2025-03-04T16:55:46Z")
My package is [available at Github](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/my_idlers_ynh/tree/development) now 🙂 Most of it works, but I’m not sure how to use `ynh_local_curl`. The registration page of the app is available at [https://sub.domain.tld/register](https://sub.domain.tld/register) , my local-curl line is: ```auto ynh_local_curl "/register" "name=$user" "email=$email" "password=$password" "password_confirmation=$password" ``` I looked for the field names in the source of the page; visually it looks like this: ![image](https://forum.yunohost.org/uploads/default/original/2X/1/19e019d9244279d75c4635f6fb5a3f681c6e43b5.png) With the location /register, the [install log](https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/sasosisaso) tells me the page was expired. I did try some other locations, those attempts ended up in SSOwat. Any idea? ---
**Author:** ![jarod5001](https://forum.yunohost.org/user_avatar/forum.yunohost.org/jarod5001/32/5323_2.png) [@jarod5001](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/jarod5001)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/artisan-tinker-to-inject-first-user-during-install-of-laravel-composer-app/35746/6 "2025-03-04T18:21:42Z")
I have used in [ojs\_ynh/scripts/install at b6f4d0275c8742d32368f26bd7c035c801b7dc9d · YunoHost-Apps/ojs\_ynh · GitHub](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/ojs_ynh/blob/b6f4d0275c8742d32368f26bd7c035c801b7dc9d/scripts/install#L49) May be adding the domain and path to the command helps : https://$domain/$path/register I remember I had hard time to make it work. I have installed the app then tried the curl command till I got the right one ---
**Author:** ![wbk](https://forum.yunohost.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/e0b2c6/32.png) [@wbk](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/wbk)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/artisan-tinker-to-inject-first-user-during-install-of-laravel-composer-app/35746/7 "2025-03-04T20:23:55Z")
The best result, giving “page expired”, is attained with ```auto ynh_local_curl "/index.php/register" "name=$user" "email=$email" "password=$password" "password_confirmation=$password" ``` The [install log](https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/uvemekovek) shows that it is converted to ```auto curl --silent --show-error --insecure --location --header 'Host: idlers.dus.osba.nl' --resolve localhost:443:127.0.0.1 --data 'name=test&email=user@testma.il&password= **********&password_confirmation=**********' https://localhost/index.php/register --cookie-jar /tmp/ynh-my_idlers-cookie.txt --cookie /tmp/ynh-my_idlers-cookie.txt ``` I tried adding domain and path, as well as hardcoding the URI. It fails in variations of “not found” and SSOwat. The[example](https://github.com/YunoHost/yunohost/blob/e8c175231e78683c98e84f7fd637d234fb31c2cc/helpers/helpers.v2.1.d/utils#L70) in the code for `ynh_curl_local` makes me think I should not refer to a page, but to the ‘register’ button. The cookie is prepared just before the command is executed; the timestamp corresponds with the last installation. I guess for now people will have to create a user by themselves 😿