theartofjoomla/joomla-cli-application

A distribution of the "Joomla Framework" for supporting a command-line (CLI) application.

Joomla CLI Application

This is distribution of the Joomla Framework for you to use as a skeleton for command-line applications (CLI's)., _(*1)

1. Installation

You have two options to install the Joomla CLI Application., _(*2)

Use Composer (recommended)

The Joomla Framework uses Composer to manage dependencies. The easiest way to install the Joomla CLI Application base is to create a project for you., _(*3)

If you don't have Composer, follow the installation instructions on the http://getcomposer.org site., _(*4)

Then, use the create-project command to download and prepare your command-line application:, _(*5)

$ php composer.phar create-project -s dev theartofjoomla/joomla-cli-application path/to/install

Composer will install the project under the path/to/install folder and automatically download all the dependencies into the path/to/install/vendor folder., _(*6)

2. Configuring the application

The application comes with based configuration support so copy or rename the /etc/config.dist.json file to /etc/config.json., _(*7)

3. Testing the application

The executable file is /bin/run.php., _(*8)

$ php bin/run.php
[2013-09-30 14:28:35] Acme.DEBUG: It works! [] []
$

4. Extending the application

1. Rename the "Acme" string and /src/Acme to the name of your application.
2. Add more packages and dependencies by modifying /composer.json.

5. Features

• JSON configuration file support (/etc/config.json).
• Monolog logging to STDOUT.
• Exception tracing.

6. More help

Browse the tutorials on building a command line application at Learn the Art of Joomla - Framework Solutions., _(*9)