Advent Of Code solutions in PHP

Personal solutions and small framework to help to solve Advent Of Code puzzle.

Requirements

• PHP >=7.1.3
• Composer

Installation

• Clone repository
• Run composer install
• Create your local .env file by copying .end.dist and removing .dist part.
• Pull adventofcode.com session token (You can use any modern browser developer tools) and update AOC_SESSIONID value in .env file

Usage

All puzzles are placed under src/YearX/DayX structure. Each day has files:

• Puzzle.php file, where first and second parts are solved separately.
• PuzzleTest.php file, where test inputs for each puzzle part are placed and corresponding answers.
• input.txt - this is your main puzzle input, which is used to generate the answer.

Each day could follow this workflow to solve the puzzles:

1. Generate structure for a puzzle by running app p:g <day> command.
2. Downloading the input by running app p:d:i <day> command.
3. Creating solution
4. Optionally updating PuzzleTest with tests
5. And then running the solution with command app p:r <day> <part:first|second>

Commands

Solve the puzzle:

Usage:
 app puzzle:run [<day>] [<part>] [options]
 app p:r [<day>] [<part>] [options]

Arguments:
 day                   Day of the puzzle
 part                  Available options: 'first','secong'. Part of the puzzle

Options:
     --year[=YEAR]     Year of the puzzle [default: current year]
     -t                Execute tests
     --file[=FILE]     Execute puzzle with given input from the file
    
To Be Added:
Option --send
   With this option, result from the puzzle will be sent to adventofcode.com
   For this you must have updated .env file with session ID

Create structure for a given puzzle

Usage:
 app puzzle:generate [<day>] [options]
 app p:g [<day>] [options]

Arguments:
 day                   Day of the puzzle

Options:
     --year[=YEAR]     Year of the puzzle [default: current year]
     --force -f        Replace current structure with new one

Download puzzle input from adventofcode

For command to work, you must have updated .env file with session ID

Download puzzle input from adventofcode.com.
For this you must have updated .env file with session ID

Usage:
 app puzzle:download:input [<day>] [options]
 app p:d:i [<day>] [options]

Arguments:
 day                   Day of the puzzle

Options:
     --year[=YEAR] -y  Year of the puzzle [default: current year]

ToDo

• Fix the option to send the puzzle result to Advent Of Code
• Add docker support
• Update puzzle:run command to have shorter syntax when selecting part of the puzzle.