symfony/console
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Eases the creation of beautiful and testable command line interfaces observed · 2026-09-30
Health v2 · maintenance only
93/100
- Activity 97
- Release rhythm 85
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0
- age_days: 5719
- days_rel: 21
- days_push: 21
- n_releases_24m: 92
Adoption not part of the score
9812 stars · 265 forks observed · 2026-09-30
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Symfony Console is a PHP component that eases the creation of beautiful and testable command-line interfaces. It provides command registration, argument and option parsing, styled output, and helpers for building CLI applications and recurring tasks.
Use cases
- build a cli application in php
- create console commands for cronjobs and batch jobs
- parse command line arguments and options
- add colored formatted output to a terminal tool
- make cli commands testable
- build a single-command php script
When to choose
- you are building a PHP CLI tool or adding console commands to a PHP project
- you want a mature, widely adopted component with extensive documentation
- you need testable commands with argument/option parsing and styled output
When to avoid
- you are building CLIs in a language other than PHP
- you need a full standalone CLI framework with scaffolding rather than a component
- you want an interactive TUI with complex terminal UI widgets
Facets
library · maturity stable
cli developer-tools testing developer-tools php cli cross-platform symfony-component command-line-interface console-commands terminal-output php-library command-line php
7 sources
- readme: https://github.com/symfony/console · fetched 2026-09-30 · 0cb9f2053668
- homepage: https://symfony.com/console · fetched 2026-08-29 · c53080cf9cbd
- site_page: https://symfony.com/doc · fetched 2026-08-29 · 44889134f4fb
- site_page: https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/console.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9e7f306046c4
- site_page: https://symfony.com/projects/phpmyfaq · fetched 2026-08-29 · e9c38f954f59
- site_page: https://symfony.com/releases · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3c529c629210
- site_page: https://symfony.com/blog/category/releases · fetched 2026-08-29 · 373d532304d3
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| symfony/console | main | 93 |
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