Important

This project is now an official PEAR package and has moved to PEAR website and repository.

About

Console_CommandLine is a full featured package for managing command line options and arguments highly inspired from python optparse module, it allows the developer to easily build complex command line interfaces.

Main features:

• handles sub commands (ie. $ myscript.php -q subcommand -f file),
• can be completely built from an xml definition file,
• generate --help and --version options automatically,
• can be completely customized,
• and much more...

Installation

Just run (with root privileges):

$ pear install -f Console_CommandLine

And to uninstall:

$ pear uninstall Console_CommandLine

Documentation

• User manual (work in progress)
• API docs

Examples

• Example demonstrating Console_CommandLine basic features
• Example demonstrating the use of an xml definition file