I’m working on a Symfony project and would like to know why whenever I run the following command in terminal php bin/console server:run it would be immediately followed by this one composer require symfony/mailer. This is a screenshot of terminal: Moreover, this is what I get as an output on http://127.…
Tag: command-line
Running PHP commands gives Xdebug errors
I’m currently getting some weird error messages whenever I run which php or php –ini: I currently have 4 php versions in my /usr/local/etc/php folders: currently using php7.3 as my default php version. I’m planning to remove older php versions if that doesn’t cause much trouble. Can so…
Problems with installing composer
I am currently trying to install composer in order to install laravel. Following their website instructions, I am entering the following code into my terminal: But without success, I get the following error: This gives me the notion that I do not have permission to do this, is this the reason and why is it oc…
How can I parse command line arguments in PHP?
I call a PHP script from command line $ php my_script.php –num1=124 –first_name=don How can I get access to any key value pairs passed into this script? The keys can be arbitrary, so using getopt() with particular values will not work. Here is what I want access to in my script: If I use var_dump(…
Symfony2 generate controller inside custom folder
Symfony2 has a command for generating controllers http://symfony.com/doc/current/bundles/SensioGeneratorBundle/commands/generate_controller.html Command’s default behavior is to generate the given controller inside controller folder within the bundle. Is it possible to customize the folder where the con…
How can I get PHP working again in the command line?
I’m completely at loss here and am about to wipe my hard drive clean and start from a fresh OS install. I’ve been trying for two days to create a new yii app in the terminal and have finally figured …
Pass a variable to a PHP script running from the command line
I have a PHP file that is needed to be run from the command line (via crontab). I need to pass type=daily to the file, but I don’t know how. I tried: but this error was returned: Could not open input file: myfile.php?type=daily What can I do? Answer The ?type=daily argument (ending up in the $_GET array…
Update Command-line Output, i.e. for Progress
I’d like to be able to show a progress meter in a simple PHP script on the command line. Instead of seeing Progress: 0% Progress: 1% etc… I’d like just the number to change, and replace the …