PHP cli micro-framework?

Question

I want to program a little CLI script in PHP, basically with two possible arguments to do two different things. Very easy. But I would like to do in an elegant way.

I was wondering if it exists some PHP micro-framework functionaly in CLI mode (note that I say micro-framework and not framework). I want to use PHP because I'll include some PHP already programmed classes.

I have found CLImax, that is an specific CLI micro-framework and seems good, but it lacks a good documentation.

Do you know any place where I can found a good CLImax documentation (I haven't found anything, but its source code poorly documented)?

Or maybe do you know another option? Alloy seems as well a lightweight PHP framework, and has CLI "mode", but I don't know if it's too generic, as it's as well for web servers. Have you used it?

Answer 1

Check out the Symfony Console component. Here's an introduction to using it. It may take a little bit of work to get it to function with an older version of PHP (without namespaces), and you need a couple other components from Symfony, but I've used it quite successfully.

Answer 2

I've found this one: php-cli-tools

It's definitely micro and brings everything you'd have with sh or windows batch.

Answer 3

It doesn't have great documentation from what I can see, but Cilex describes itself as:-

"a lightweight framework for creating PHP CLI scripts inspired by Silex"

Might be worth a look, I am thinking of using it myself to replace the bash deployment scripts I have written.

Answer 4

Laravel has a command line tool called Artisan which it allows you to extend quite easily;

Artisan is the name of the command-line interface included with Laravel.... [Artisan Development] In addition to the commands provided with Artisan, you may also build your own custom commands for working with your application.

See the documentation for Artisan development here

Answer 5

Check out https://github.com/c9s/CLIFramework

CLIFramework is a full-stack framework for command-line tools, unlike Symfony/Console, it has a concise API for building lightweight command-line application.

It allows you to define few options and argument info to generate a help document rapidly.

The most important part is that CLIFramework can generate zsh completion script automatically, so you don't need to write zsh script for every command line application.

Answer 6

You might be interested in my php cli framework: https://github.com/b-b3rn4rd/Terminalor Terminalor - is a php library for creating portable php cli files. It provides essential functionality to work under cli interface and can be used as a wrapper for external libraries. It allows rapidly create documented cli commands with arguments using closures and phpdoc comments. Later this commands can be compiled into single independent portable file.

Answer 7

I don' think many of the suggestions above are micro-frameworks - even though many of the suggestions are great frameworks - and properbly better in many use-cases than my suggestion: https://github.com/diversen/minimal-cli-framework

It is much faster than the above frameworks (though it is rare that you need speed from a CLI-framework). It lets you add sub-commands using class objects. It generates help and command-definitions from a single method. You will only need to implement two methods to an existing class to use it with the minimal-cli-framework (getCommand - definition of the command and runCommand - the execution of the command).

Disclaminer: I wrote the package.

Answer 8

Did you try Seagull? It looks like it too natively supports projects that are specifically meant to be used in the CLI.