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CLI generator for the Laika PHP MVC Framework.

Install

laika-cli ships as a dependency of laikait/laika-core, so every Laika project already has it. If you started from laikait/laika-framework, the wiring below is already in your composer.json and the executable is generated for you on composer install, update, dump-autoload and create-project — no manual step needed.

php laika help

Wiring it up manually

Composer only runs scripts declared by the root project, never by a dependency. So a project that wasn't created from the framework skeleton needs to call the generator itself:

"scripts": {
    "post-autoload-dump": [
        "Laika\\Cli\\ScriptHandler::generate"
    ],
    "post-create-project-cmd": [
        "Laika\\Cli\\ScriptHandler::generate"
    ]
}

Keep ScriptHandler::generate first in post-autoload-dump if later entries in that list invoke laika themselves — it has to exist before they run.

What gets generated

File	Platform	How you run it
`laika`	all	`php laika help` — or `./laika help` on Linux/macOS

One file, the same on every platform. It is a thin proxy into vendor/laikait/laika-cli, so it always matches the version this project has installed. It is rewritten only when its content actually changes, and regenerates if you delete it.

Windows: run it as php laika ..., not a bare laika .... There is deliberately no laika.bat shim — cmd and PowerShell resolve commands through PATHEXT and will never execute an extensionless file. A laika.bat left over from an earlier version is deleted on the next composer install. If you want a bare laika command on Windows, use the global install below.

Versions before 3.0 shipped this package as a Composer plugin, which required an allow-plugins entry in every consuming project. That is no longer needed — you can drop "laikait/laika-cli": true from your config.allow-plugins.

Global install

Prefer a single laika command available in every project? Install it globally instead:

composer global require laikait/laika-cli

Make sure Composer's global vendor/bin directory is on your PATH (see the Composer docs), then run laika from inside any Laika project directory (or a sub-directory of one):

laika model:make User

The global binary detects the current project by walking up from your working directory until it finds lf-boot/app.php — no php prefix needed.

This is the one case where a bare laika does work on Windows: the shims in Composer's global vendor/bin are built by Composer itself, not by this package, and it still writes a .bat there.

Usage

php laika route:make users
php laika pipeline:make Auth
php laika filter:make Log
php laika model:make User --table=users --id=id --uid=uid
php laika template:make admin/dashboard
php laika service:make --name=Mailer --class=App\\Model\\MailerModel
php laika controller:make UserController

php laika route:list
php laika pipeline:list
php laika model:list

php laika model:remove User

php laika model:rename --old=User --new=Customer

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