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I'm aware of the other questions out there, but they are different to my situation.

I installed a fresh copy of my own laravel, and I tried running php artisan list, which works.

Now, I have a colleague who has installed a copy of laravel himself, and he pushes his entire directory onto a git repository. I pulled the entire branch off the repository, and tried running php artisan list, but nothing happens this time. I mean, literally, nothing happens.

Any ideas as to why this is happening?

Generally speaking, the vendor directory is not committed to VCS, as such, doing a clone on a standard Laravel app won't include all its dependencies.

Once you have cloned, doing composer install (or composer update if you want the latest packages as a developer) will fetch the dependencies and allow your app to work.

My artisan was not working because i had the following lines in my routes.php

if(!isset($_SESSION['c_id'])) 
 header("Location: /login_page.php");
 exit();

I simply commented the exit(). So my code becomes as follows

if(!isset($_SESSION['c_id'])) 
 header("Location: /login_page.php");
// exit();

You need to run composer install, so the composer refresh all dependencies, artisan's begin on the middle. That should do the job!

Just to point out some thing to anyone struggling with artisan, as this answer is 1st link in google to artisan CLI empty line:

It will print blank line whenever some error happens, even if you have all dependencies installed with composer install. And it won't tell you exactly what is wrong. I couldn't figure it out until I put into artisan file in the root directory this:

ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(-1);

That forced artisan CLI to show error message and therefore I was able to fix it (my .env file was broken).

Hope this helps someone.

In my case problem was to connect artisan with database (migrates) i.e. the command

$php artisan migrate

was not working.

I was running laravel project on 8888 port.
In this case I updated .env file as:
DB_HOST=localhost to DB_HOST=localhost to DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
and DB_PORT=3306 to DB_PORT=8889

Cleared cache by running artisan command and run the migrates:

php artisan config:clear
php artisan migrate