symfony/console

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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

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