symla/cli

Simplified creation of cli scripts for Joomla

Symla-CLI

Base structure for Joomla CLI scripts Provides support classes for simplified CLI scripts development for Joomla, _(*1)

1. Install Dependencies

To work with this. You need to pull it via composer, _(*2)

composer require symla/cli

2. Let Joomla know about it

In your cli script you have to specify path to composer autoloader, copy bootstrap.php from cli folder to your cli folder and require it in your cli script, _(*3)

require_once(__DIR__ . '/bootstrap.php');

3. Create CLI file

Now you can use simplified CLI bootstrap class like this:, _(*4)

use Symla\Joomla\Cli\ApplicationCli;

class SimplifiedCli extends ApplicationCli
{
    public function doExecute()
    {
        // do something useful
    }
}

ApplicationCli::getInstance('SimplifiedCli')->execute();