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Say Goodbye to Boring Command Lines: Create Powerful and Fun Tools with PHP

Atakan Demircioğlu
Developers Keep Learning
4 min readApr 22, 2023

Command Line Interface (CLI) tools have been gaining popularity lately due to their speed and efficiency. CLI tools that can automate tasks, simplify workflows, enhance your productivity and etc.

If you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, this guide will provide you with the tools and knowledge to create CLI tools that will revolutionize your workflow and help you achieve your coding goals.

So, let’s get started and unleash the full potential of PHP on the command line.

Table Of Contents:

· What are the project requirements and packages?
· Start Codding
Creating Folder Structure
Creating Commands
Giving permissions to file
Testing commands manually

What are the project requirements and packages?

Honestly, writing everything from scratch is not worth it. I researched some packages and decided to use Symfony’s Console package.

I loved the usage, and some features like autocomplete, help part, and colors.

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Atakan Demircioğlu
Atakan Demircioğlu

Written by Atakan Demircioğlu

Passionate about blogging and sharing insights on tech, web development, and beyond. Join me on this digital journey! 🚀

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This article was a well-articulated piece, nice job 👍🏾

Tengo que probar es una deuda que tengo de hace tiempo