inanepain/cli

Utilities to simplify working with the console.

0.17.0 2025-09-14 18:14 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.1
• inanepain/stdlib: >=0.4.4 || dev-master || dev-develop

Unlicense

• Philip Michael Raab

• cli
• console
• utility
• inane

README

Table of Contents

• inanepain/cli
• Install
• Function List
• Progress Indicators
• Tabular Display
• TextTable Display
• Tree Display
• Argument Parser
• Usage
• Todo

inanepain/cli

Utilities to simplify working with the console.

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.4

Suggested PHP extensions

• mbstring - Used for calculating string widths.

Install

Example 1. composer

composer require inanepain/cli

Function List

• Inane\Cli\out($msg, …​)

• Inane\Cli\out_padded($msg, …​)

• Inane\Cli\err($msg, …​)

• Inane\Cli\line($msg = '', …​)

• Inane\Cli\input()

• Inane\Cli\prompt($question, $default = false, $marker = ':')

• Inane\Cli\choose($question, $choices = 'yn', $default = 'n')

• Inane\Cli\menu($items, $default = false, $title = 'Choose an Item')

Progress Indicators

• Inane\Cli\notify\Dots($msg, $dots = 3, $interval = 100)

• Inane\Cli\notify\Spinner($msg, $interval = 100)

• Inane\Cli\progress\Bar($msg, $total, $interval = 100)

Tabular Display

• Inane\Cli\Table::__construct(array $headers = null, array $rows = null)

• Inane\Cli\Table::setHeaders(array $headers)

• Inane\Cli\Table::setRows(array $rows)

• Inane\Cli\Table::setRenderer(cli\table\Renderer $renderer)

• Inane\Cli\Table::addRow(array $row)

• Inane\Cli\Table::sort($column)

• Inane\Cli\Table::display()

The display function will detect if output is piped and, if it is, render a tab delimited table instead of the ASCII table rendered for visual display.

You can also explicitly set the renderer used by calling Inane\Cli\Table::setRenderer() and giving it an instance of one of the concrete Inane\Cli\table\Renderer classes.

TextTable Display

Alternative table display.

$tt = new \Inane\Cli\TextTable();
$tt->addHeader(['Name', 'Description']);
$tt->addRow(['TextTable', 'Alternative table display.']);
echo $tt->render();

Tree Display

• Inane\Cli\Tree::__construct()

• Inane\Cli\Tree::setData(array $data)

• Inane\Cli\Tree::setRenderer(cli\tree\Renderer $renderer)

• Inane\Cli\Tree::render()

• Inane\Cli\Tree::display()

Argument Parser

Argument parsing uses a simple framework for taking a list of command line arguments, usually straight from $_SERVER['argv'], and parses the input against a set of defined rules.

Check examples/arguments.php for an example.

Usage

See examples/ directory for examples.

Todo

• Expand this README

• Add doc blocks to rest of code