PHP Console

CLI applications are executed from the command line. They are useful to create cron jobs, scripts, command utilities and more.

Structure

A minimal structure of a CLI application will look like this:

• cli/app/tasks/MainTask.php
• cli/cli.php <– main bootstrap file

This console app used same config file of web app located at /conf/global.php

Tasks

Tasks work similar to controllers. Any CLI application needs at least a mainTask and a mainAction and every task needs to have a mainAction which will run if no action is given explicitly.

For example calling a task in console app, you need declare like below:

<?php

use Phalcon\CLI\Task as PhTask;

class MainTask extends PhTask
{
    public function mainAction()
    {

    }

    public function testAction()
    {
        echo CURRENT_TASK . PHP_EOL;
        echo CURRENT_ACTION . PHP_EOL;
    }
}

Then call in Terminal:

php cli/cli.php main test

That will print to terminal 2 string

main
test