Building for the PHP Command Line Interface

Steve Grunwell

Thursday 31 May 2018 from 11:30 to 12:30

Talk in English - US at php[tek] 2018
View Slides: https://stevegrunwell.com/slides/php-cli
Checkout the code: https://github.com/stevegrunwell/php-cli-examples
Short URL: https://joind.in/talk/c6025 (QR-Code (opens in new window))

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Executing PHP from the command line enables us to interact with our applications in new and interesting ways: from performing site maintenance to scaffolding new projects, CLI tools like WP-CLI, Artisan, and Drush make it easy to interface with our code without ever opening a browser.

Attendees will be introduced to popular PHP CLI tools and their default capabilities. We'll discuss characteristics of good CLI scripts, strong use-cases for writing custom commands, then write several CLI programs across different platforms.

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Chuck Burgess at 12:59 on 31 May 2018

Nice coverage of the variation of CLI options available.

Tessa Kriesel at 23:05 on 31 May 2018

Awesome content, great code examples.

Ryan Howe at 09:58 on 6 Jun 2018

This was a great demonstration of different command line tools. Thought that the examples were very good and that this was a great way to get introduced to running code on the command line with interactions for the user