The Known framework has the ability to execute commands from the console, which is kind of cool and enables, among other things, stuff like these console development tools.

You can see what commands are currently available by going to the console, navigate to your Known directory, and execute ./known.php.

The commands available can be added to in two ways…

Create a pure console plugin

If you look in ConsolePlugins you’ll see a plugin called Example, which probably tells you all you need to know.. but in summary:

• Create a subdirectory for your plugin in ConsolePlugins (or at least copy/symlink it there later)
• Create a Main.php file, containing a class called Main which extends the class \Idno\Common\ConsolePlugin
• Implement the abstract methods:
  • getCommand() the command name you are providing
  • getDescription() the description of the command
  • getParameters() a method returning an array of the command’s parameters
  • execute() your actual code

And you’re done!

Add a console plugin to a regular Known plugin

If you’re using the most recent build of Known from github, you can also add a console command to an existing traditional Known plugin (i.e. those sitting in IdnoPlugins/*). To do this, create a class called ConsoleMain that extends \Idno\Common\ConsolePlugin and save it in a file called ConsoleMain.php sitting along side your regular Main.php.