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Launching Tinker

Laravel Tinker is a REPL for Laravel, and it allows you to interact with your application via the command line. While you usually start it via the terminal by running php artisan tinker or herd tinker, Herd provides a convenient button in the actions column in the sites settings as well as a global shortcut that instantly opens the active project automatically.

[!NOTE] Herd integrates natively with Tinkerwell and gives you a fantastic tinker experience with multi-line code editing, autocompletion, and SSH access to your applications.

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Open Tinker from the site settings

You can run the Tinker site action from the Site Manager to start a new tinker or Tinkerwell session directly in your site.

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Open Tinker with a global shortcut

Herd allows you to define global system shortcuts and Tinker is part of this configuration. By pressing the global tinker shortcut, Herd starts a tinker session for the last site that you visited via your browser.

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Tinkerwell Integration

Tinkerwell users benefit from the deep integration between both tools, so if you are running herd tinker, click the button in the site settings or press the global shortcut and Herd detects Tinkerwell on your machine, Tinkerwell opens a new tab with the most recent Herd project automatically.

This allows you to quickly iterate on complex Eloquent queries or debug some code. It also provides autocompletion and a familiar multi-line code editor experience that goes beyond a simple REPL.

Tinkerwell ships with support for all of Herds PHP versions and automatically loads the correct configuration files.