cli.md

How is the CLI working

You might have noticed a CLI is provided. It can be run with the following command:

$ ./docker/bin/cli
$ # or if you don't use Docker
$ ./cli

By default, it shows you how to use the command. The syntax mimics a browser requests: it takes a --request parameter which is used to create a Request object as seen in the previous section. Parameters can be passed with the following syntax: -pKEY=VALUE where KEY is the parameter name and VALUE its value.

The architecture of the cli file is, in fact, pretty similar to the public/index.php. It just needs to create the Request object differently, and the Application class can be found in the src/cli/Application.php file. The routers are different to avoid exposing the CLI routes to the browser. They should be inaccessible either way since they use the cli via method instead of get or post: it’s only an additional security.

The CLI controllers work the same way as the other controllers, but they usually return text instead of HTML since it would be unreadable in a console.

Finally, the CLI exit code is 0 if the response HTTP code is 20x, and 1 otherwise.