exert:messages

php artisan exert:messages

This creates config/messages.php from the package's default HTTP status message map. Each entry groups the status text, the numeric code, and a human-readable message:

'404' => [
    'status'  => 'NOT FOUND',
    'code'    => 404,
    'message' => 'The requested resource could not be found.',
],

The package ships this map as a configuration template. Run the command (or publish the tag) to add it to your application, then read it with the standard config helper:

$message = config('messages.404.message');

Edit the application's copy to adjust wording or add statuses. Exert does not read or overwrite it at runtime.

Options

php artisan exert:messages --force

An existing config/messages.php is protected unless you pass --force. Without it the command makes no changes and exits with a failure code.

Publish instead

The same file can be created with the exert-messages publish tag:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=exert-messages

Add --force to replace an existing file. Both approaches copy the identical package default.