Question

I’ve followed the steps to create a Zend Framework 2 application from the skeleton ( http://framework.zend.com/manual/2.0/en/user-guide/skeleton-application.html )

There also is a very nice tutorial for the ZF2 native console support available
http://framework.zend.com/manual/2.0/en/modules/zend.console.introduction.html

Now the tutorial says:

Let’s assume that we’d like our application to handle the following
command line:

> zf user resetpassword [e-mail]

When a user runs our application (zf) with these parameters, we’d like
to call action resetpassword of Application\IndexController.

Problem is that there is no description available on how to get the script running on CONSOLE ( currently windows ) – there’s no zf or any other executable script in the created folder structure

Any hints?

ideally would be a bin folder in the application root directory which contains a entry-script for each application module

e.g. run a application module called module1

php appfolder/bin/module1.php --verbose

or

php appfolder/bin/cli.php module1 --verbose

Answer 1

I found the solution.
Just like a web-based ZF2 application the entry point is the index.php in appfolder/public

The example app from the tutorial above is called this way

php.exe public\index.php user resetpassword [e-mail]

linux wrapper to call zf2 console apps

change into your ZF2 application folder

mkdir bin    
touch bin/app
chmod +x bin/app

put this into your app file

#!/bin/sh
PHP_BIN=`which php`
WDIR=`dirname ${0}"`
if test -x "${PHP_BIN}"; then
    cd "${WDIR}"
    "${PHP_BIN}" "../public/index.php" "${@}"
    exit "${?}"
fi
echo "php binary not found, please install php-cli"
exit 1;

Now you should be able to run your app this way

app user resetpassword [e-mail]