Mastering PHP 7

Using Console component helpers

Understanding arguments and options is a first step towards utilizing the Console component. Once we understand how to deal with inputs, we turn our attention to other, more advanced features. The helpers feature helps us ease the common tasks, such as format outputs, show running processes, show updatable progress information, provide interactive QA process, display tabular data, and so on.

The following are several Console component helpers available for us to use:

• Formatter Helper
• Process Helper
• Progress Bar
• Question Helper
• Table
• Debug Formatter Helper

You can see the full helper implementations within our project's vendor\symfony\console\Helper directory.

To showcase the ease of use of these helpers, ...