Mastering PHP 7

Setting up the Console component

The Console component is available in two flavors:

• Composer package (symfony/console on Packagist)
• Git repository (https://github.com/symfony/console)

Given that Composer is a de facto standard when it comes to dealing with PHP components, we will use the composer require command to quickly kick off our first console application, as follows:

mkdir foggylinecd foggylinecomposer require symfony/console

Running this command triggers the following output:

Upon completion, Composer generates the following structure within our foggyline directory:

All it takes for us now is to create an application entry file, ...