apex/cli

Develop efficient console applications.

2.0.2 2024-01-11 16:31 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.1
• apex/container: ^2.0
• symfony/string: ^6.0

Requires (Dev)

• apex/signer: ^2.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^9.5

MIT

• Matt Dizak

README

Quickly and efficiently develop CLI based applications. Features include

• File / directory structure based routing for better organization and single responsibility principle
• Many helper functions to automatically wordwrap all text, get user input, get password, specify new password, get y/n confirmation, render SQL style table, render two column array, and more.
• Support for additional arguments, plus short and long flags with optional values.
• Provides uniform, concise and well structured help screen for all commands.
• Utilizes levenshtein algorithm to automatically detect typos within command names.
• Easily define shortcuts to commands.
• Supports attribute based dependancy injection providing cleaner and more efficient development.

Installation

Install via Composer with:

composer require apex/cli

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started
2. Create CLI Commands
3. Define Shortcuts
4. CLI Help Screen
5. Cli Function Reference

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