PHP cli micro-framework?

Question

I want to program a little CLI script in PHP, basically with two possible arguments to do two different things. Very easy. But I would like to do in an elegant way.

I was wondering if it exists some PHP micro-framework functionaly in CLI mode (note that I say micro-framework and not framework). I want to use PHP because I'll include some PHP already programmed classes.

I have found CLImax, that is an specific CLI micro-framework and seems good, but it lacks a good documentation.

Do you know any place where I can found a good CLImax documentation (I haven't found anything, but its source code poorly documented)?

Or maybe do you know another option? Alloy seems as well a lightweight PHP framework, and has CLI "mode", but I don't know if it's too generic, as it's as well for web servers. Have you used it?

Answer 1

Check out the Symfony Console component. Here's an introduction to using it. It may take a little bit of work to get it to function with an older version of PHP (without namespaces), and you need a couple other components from Symfony, but I've used it quite successfully.

Answer 2

I've found this one: php-cli-tools

It's definitely micro and brings everything you'd have with sh or windows batch.

Answer 3

It doesn't have great documentation from what I can see, but Cilex describes itself as:-

"a lightweight framework for creating PHP CLI scripts inspired by Silex"

Might be worth a look, I am thinking of using it myself to replace the bash deployment scripts I have written.