Phalcon - CLI Options Parser

Command line arguments/options parser.

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.0

Installation

You can install the package using composer

composer require phalcon/cli-options-parser

Usage

use Phalcon\Cop\Parser;

$parser = new Parser();

// Parse params from the $argv
$params = $parser->parse($argv);

// Parse params from the $_SERVER['argv']
$params = $parser->parse();

// After parsing input, Parser provides a way to get booleans:
$parser->getBoolean('foo');

// Get param `foo` or return TRUE as a default value
$parser->getBoolean('foo', true);

Examples

php test.php -az value1 -abc value2
[
    'a' => 'value2',
    'z' => 'value1',
    'b' => 'value2',
    'c' => 'value2',
]

php test.php -a value1 -abc value2
[
    'a'  => 'value2',
    'b'  => 'value2',
    'c'  => 'value2',
]

php test.php --az value1 --abc value2
[
    'az'  => 'value1',
    'abc' => 'value2',
]

php test.php --foo --bar=baz --spam eggs
[
    'foo'  => true,
    'bar'  => 'baz',
    'spam' => 'eggs',
]

php test.php -abc foo
[
    'a' => 'foo',
    'b' => 'foo',
    'c' => 'foo',
]

php test.php arg1 arg2 arg3
[
    0 => 'arg1',
    1 => 'arg2',
    2 => 'arg3',
]

Development

The repository ships a Docker setup for local development and testing. You only need Docker + Docker Compose; the PHP runtime is provided inside the container.

Quick start

docker compose up -d --build
docker compose exec app composer install
docker compose exec app composer test

app is the Compose service name; the running container is cli-options-parser-app. It stays up via a sleep infinity keepalive, so you can docker compose exec app <cmd> freely.

Choosing the PHP version

The image is built for one PHP version at a time via the PHP_VERSION build arg (default 8.4; supported 8.0–8.4). Because it is a build arg, changing it requires a rebuild:

docker compose up -d --build                  # PHP 8.4 (default)
PHP_VERSION=8.0 docker compose up -d --build  # PHP 8.0

Composer scripts

Script	Description
composer cs	PHP_CodeSniffer (PSR-12)
composer cs-fix	Auto-fix coding-standard issues (phpcbf)
composer cs-fixer	PHP CS Fixer (dry-run)
composer cs-fixer-fix	Apply PHP CS Fixer
composer analyze	PHPStan static analysis (level max)
composer test	Unit tests (PHPUnit)
composer test-coverage	Tests + Clover coverage (tests/_output/coverage.xml)

License

CLI Options Parser is open source software licensed under the BSD-3-Clause License.

© Phalcon Team