Yii 2 Minimal Console Application Template

Yii 2 Minimal Console Application Template is a skeleton Yii 2 application best for starting totally from scratch, especially for console application.

It includes all commonly used configurations that would allow you to focus on adding new features to your console application.

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

  commands/           contains console commands (controllers)
  config/             contains application configurations
  models/             contains model classes
  runtime/            contains files generated during runtime
  vendor/             contains dependent 3rd-party packages

REQUIREMENTS

The minimum requirement by this application template that your Web server supports PHP 7.4.0.

INSTALLATION

If you do not have Composer, you may install it by following the instructions at getcomposer.org.

You can then install this application template using the following command:

composer create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev agungsijawir/yii2-minimal-console path/to/your/project

Now you should be able to run the application through the command line / terminal:

./yii

CONFIGURATION

Database

Edit the file config/db.php with real data, for example:

return [
    'class' => 'yii\db\Connection',
    'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=yii2minimal',
    'username' => 'root',
    'password' => '1234',
    'charset' => 'utf8',
];

NOTES:

• Yii won't create the database for you, this has to be done manually before you can access it.
• Check and edit the other files in the config/ directory to customize your application as required.
• Follow best practice as detailed and clear explanation on The Definitive Guide to Yii 2.0 - Section: Console applications.

CREDITS

This project is forked from samdark/yii2-minimal and yii2 community. Forked stripped out web view and just for console only.