• Version: v1.2.2
• Date: Aug 06 2019
• Release notes
• GitHub repository

Collection of classes for handling argv (and other) input when calling command-line scripts. Helps with parsing, collecting and validating arguments, options, and flags.

This library is installed via Composer. To install, use composer require pointybeard/helpers-cli-input or add "pointybeard/helpers-cli-input": "~1.2.0" to your composer.json file.

And run composer to update your dependencies:

$ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ php composer.phar update

This library makes use of the PHP Helpers: Flag Functions (pointybeard/helpers-functions-flags) and PHP Helpers: Factory Foundation Classes packages. They are installed automatically via composer.

To include all the PHP Helpers packages on your project, use composer require pointybeard/helpers or add "pointybeard/helpers": "~1.1" to your composer file.

Include this library in your PHP files with use pointybeard\Helpers\Cli. See example code in example/example.php. The example code can be run with the following command:

php -f example/example.php -- -vvv -d example/example.json import

If you believe you have found a bug, please report it using the GitHub issue tracker, or better yet, fork the library and submit a pull request.

We encourage you to contribute to this project. Please check out the Contributing documentation for guidelines about how to get involved.

"PHP Helpers: Command-line Input and Input Type Handlers" is released under the MIT License.

• Some inspiration taken from the Symfony Console Component (although no code has been used).