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Commander is a task manager/runner application for PHP.

Requirements

This application has the following requirements:

PHP 5.6+
ext-pdo_sqlite

Usage

Commander was designed to be used as a type of SQLite based task manager and runner. You can add new tasks to the schedule, run them and watch the result. A task consists of a commandline which will be executed and an optional priority. For now the tasks are unique and can only be added once to the schedule.

You can use Commander in one of the three following ways.

As a Phar

This is the recommended way of using Commander. Download the latest Phar from the releases section.

Commander can then be executed out of the box by running:

$ php commander.phar

As a global Composer package

Install composer in your project:

$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Require the package as a global dependency via Composer:

$ php composer.phar global require gravitymedia/commander

As a Composer dependency

Install composer in your project:

$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Require the package as a dependency for development via Composer:

$ php composer.phar require --dev gravitymedia/commander

Configuration

Commander can be configured with a JSON file named commander.json. This file should be located in the current working directory. It's location can also be defined with the --configuration option.

Name	Description
databaseFilePath	The file path to the database file
cacheDirectory	The directory where the cache files will be stored (e.g. `.commander`)
logFilePath	The file path to the log file (e.g. `commander.log`)
processTimeout	The timeout after which every task will be killed

The following configuration complies with the default configuration:

{
    "databaseFilePath": "commander.sqlite",
    "cacheDirectory": null,
    "logFilePath": null,
    "processTimeout": 60
}

Examples

You can list all the commands by running Commander without an argument.

For the following examples assume that Commander is available as a Phar in the current working directory.

Create new task or update existing task

$ php commander.phar join -- 'printf "Hello world!"'
$ php commander.phar join --priority=1000 -- 'printf "Hello world!"'
$ php commander.phar join -- 'printf "Let ms say hello:"'

The first command will join a task that will later print out Hello world!. The next command will change the priority of this task, so the next task will then run (with default priority) before this one.

Show information about all joined tasks

This command will list all tasks:

$ php commander.phar show

The output will be rendered as an ASCII table.

+--------------------------------------+----------+----------------------------+-----+-----------+---------------------+---------------------+
| ID                                   | Priority | Commandline                | PID | Exit Code | Created At          | Updated At          |
+--------------------------------------+----------+----------------------------+-----+-----------+---------------------+---------------------+
| 2E906453-41D6-4875-9678-67B3F130ADF6 | 1000     | printf "Hello world!"      |     |           | 2016-08-10 11:13:08 | 2016-08-10 11:13:28 |
| 441798A8-5F37-4147-B166-5A63C095B2DA | 1        | printf "Let me say hello:" |     |           | 2016-08-10 11:14:37 | 2016-08-10 11:14:37 |
+--------------------------------------+----------+----------------------------+-----+-----------+---------------------+---------------------+

Run all joined tasks

To run all joined tasks execute the following command:

$ php commander.phar run

The output will be printed to STDOUT and STDERR respectively. Use the -q option to omit the output. When a log file path was specified, the output will also be logged.

Remove all terminated tasks

To reduce the number of tasks in the database the terminated tasks can be purged of the database file:

$ php commander.phar purge

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