pop-console
provides a layer to run an application from the console window.
It has support for input commands and options as well ANSI-based console colors.
It can be easily be used with an application built with Pop to route requests
from the CLI to the application.
pop-console
is a component of the Pop PHP Framework.
Install pop-console
using Composer.
composer require popphp/pop-console
You can use a console object to manage and deploy output to the console, including a prepended header and appended footer.
$console = new Pop\Console\Console();
$console->setHeader('My Application');
$console->setFooter('The End');
$console->append('Here is some console information.');
$console->append('Hope you enjoyed it!');
$console->send();
The above will output:
My Application
Here is some console information.
Hope you enjoyed it!
The End
On consoles that support it, you can colorize text outputted to the console with the
colorize()
method:
$console->append(
'Here is some ' .
$console->colorize('IMPORTANT', Console::BOLD_RED) .
' console information.'
);
You can also trigger a prompt to get information from the user. You can enforce a certain set of options as well as whether or not they are case-sensitive:
$console = new Pop\Console\Console();
$letter = $console->prompt(
'Which is your favorite letter: A, B, C, or D? ',
['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'],
true
);
echo 'Your favorite letter is ' . $letter . '.';
./pop
Which is your favorite letter: A, B, C, or D? B // <- User types 'B'
Your favorite letter is B.
You can register commands with the console object to assist in auto-generating a well-formatted, colorized help screen.
use Pop\Console\Console;
use Pop\Console\Command;
$edit = new Command(
'user edit', '<id>', 'This is the help for the user edit command'
);
$remove = new Command(
'user remove', '<id>', 'This is the help for the user remove command'
);
$console = new Console();
$console->addCommand($edit);
$console->addCommand($remove);
$console->setHelpColors(
Console::BOLD_CYAN,
Console::BOLD_GREEN,
Console::BOLD_YELLOW
);
Once the commands are registered with the main $console
object, we can generate
the help screen like this:
$console->help();
The above command will output an auto-generated, colorized help screen with the commands that are registered with the console object.
These are basic examples. Ideally, you could wire an application to use the console but not for setting routes, controllers and actions. Refer to the Pop PHP Tutorial example application to see how to wire up a CLI-based application using Pop PHP.