Zend Framework console application

Question

I've followed the steps to create a Zend Framework 2 application from the skeleton ( http://framework.zend.com/manual/2.0/en/user-guide/skeleton-application.html )

There also is a very nice tutorial for the ZF2 native console support available http://framework.zend.com/manual/2.0/en/modules/zend.console.introduction.html

Now the tutorial says:

Let’s assume that we’d like our application to handle the following command line:

> zf user resetpassword [email protected]

When a user runs our application (zf) with these parameters, we’d like to call action resetpassword of Application\IndexController.

Problem is that there is no description available on how to get the script running on CONSOLE ( currently windows ) - there's no zf or any other executable script in the created folder structure

Any hints?

ideally would be a bin folder in the application root directory which contains a entry-script for each application module

e.g. run a application module called module1

php appfolder/bin/module1.php --verbose

or

php appfolder/bin/cli.php module1 --verbose

Michel Feldheim · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-09 15:26:03Z

5

I found the solution. Just like a web-based ZF2 application the entry point is the index.php in appfolder/public

The example app from the tutorial above is called this way

php.exe public\index.php user resetpassword [email protected]

linux wrapper to call zf2 console apps

change into your ZF2 application folder

mkdir bin    
touch bin/app
chmod +x bin/app

put this into your app file

#!/bin/sh
PHP_BIN=`which php`
WDIR=`dirname ${0}"`
if test -x "${PHP_BIN}"; then
    cd "${WDIR}"
    "${PHP_BIN}" "../public/index.php" "${@}"
    exit "${?}"
fi
echo "php binary not found, please install php-cli"
exit 1;

Now you should be able to run your app this way

app user resetpassword [email protected]

edited Nov 9, 2012 at 15:26

answered Nov 9, 2012 at 14:50

Michel Feldheim

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Xerkus Over a year ago

in linux you can use app.php where first line is shebang #!/usr/bin/env php. Then you just run it with $ bin/app.php user resetpassword [email protected]

Will H · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-21 15:07:46Z

For those interested... based on Michel Feldheim's answer I've improved it slightly to handle symlinks as well and it also does not matter where you run the script from as it will always find the correct location. This one does however use bash"

#!/bin/bash
PHP_BIN=`which php`
SOURCE="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
while [ -h "$SOURCE" ] ; do SOURCE="$(readlink "$SOURCE")"; done
scriptDir="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"
rootDir="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$scriptDir/../../../../" )" && pwd )"
if test -x "${PHP_BIN}"; then
    cd $rootDir
    "${PHP_BIN}" "public/index.php" "${@}"
    exit "${?}"
fi
echo "php binary not found, please install php-cli"
exit 1;

In above example, $scriptDir is where the actual script you are running resides. And rootDir should be the base directory of your application. So lets assume the application lives under /data/www/someapplication and this application contains a modules/Application/bin folder with the filename run. From linux path (/) running:

sh /data/www/someapplication/modules/Application/bin/run

Would change directory into /data/www/someapplication, and then run:

php public/index.php <your arguments>

Salman · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-09 14:43:19Z

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A command line tool used to be shipped with ZF1 versions. Probably the tutorial is referring to that.

answered Nov 9, 2012 at 14:43

Salman

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