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PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group. PHP was originally an abbreviation of Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

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PHP happens mostly in the IDE and with the command line you come into contact less often. Nevertheless, there are many helpful commands.

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composer:install Install composer PHP package installer

$ php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
$ php composer-setup.php
$ php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

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php-artisan:tldr:1863b php-artisan: Generate a new Eloquent model class with a migration, factory and resource controller.

$ php artisan make:model ${ModelName} --all

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php-artisan:tldr:a42bd php-artisan: Start an interactive PHP command-line interface.

$ php artisan tinker

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php-artisan:tldr:a520d php-artisan: Display a list of all available commands.

$ php artisan help

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php-artisan:tldr:a53eb php-artisan: Start PHP's built-in web server for the current Laravel application.

$ php artisan serve

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php-yii:tldr:299fb php-yii: Display a list of all available commands.

$ php yii ${help}

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php-yii:tldr:9a0b1 php-yii: Generate a controller, views and related files for the CRUD actions on the specified model class.

$ php yii ${gii-crud} --modelClass=${ModelName} --controllerClass=${ControllerName}

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php:code-beautifier-and-fixer:run Run PHP Code Beautifier and Fixer

$ php vendor/bin/phpcbf

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php:code:run Run PHP code (Notes: Don't use tags; escape double quotes with backslash).

$ php -r "${code}"

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php:config:show Show the PHP configuration for the CLI version

$ php -i

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php:extensions:list Get a list of installed PHP extensions.

$ php -m

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php:function:information Display information about a specific function.

$ php --rf ${function_name}

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php:ini:which Show the location of the php.ini file (CLI)

$ php -i | grep php\.ini

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php:lint Check for syntax errors in php files (linting)

$ php -l ${filename}

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php:phar:decompress Decompress a phar file to a given directory

$ php -r '$phar = new Phar("${phar_file}"); $phar->extractTo("${directory_to_decompress_to}");'

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php:run:interactively Run PHP interactively.

$ php -a

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php:script:run Run a PHP CLI script

$ php ${filename}

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php:script:run:memory_limit Run a PHP CLI script with a defined memory limit

$ php -d memory_limit=${limit_in_megabyte}M ${filename}

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php:server:start Starting the built-in web server

$ php -S localhost:8000

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symfony:bundle:create Create a Symfony bundle

$ php bin/console make:bundle

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symfony:cache:clear Clear the Symfony cache

$ php bin/console cache:clear

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symfony:database:update:force Update the database (force)

$ php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force

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