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ekowabaka/clearice
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A tool to help in the building of CLI apps. Provides command line parsing and simple console I/O interfaces.

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ClearIce PHP Command Line Argument Parser
=========================================

[](#clearice-php-command-line-argument-parser)

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ClearIce provides tools for PHP applications to help with parsing command line arguments, and performing interactive I/O sessions. Arguments supplied at the command line or through a shell are validated and supplied to your script in a consistently organized format. And gues what, there's also the added possibility of automatically generating help messages for your applications.

Installing
----------

[](#installing)

Although you can directly include the ClearIce scripts into your application, the best way of installing it is through composer.

```
composer require ekowabaka/clearice

```

ClearIce has no dependencies other than a PHP interpreter with version 7.1 or better.

Parsing Arguments with ClearICE
-------------------------------

[](#parsing-arguments-with-clearice)

Let's get started with an example. If you ever wanted to parse command line arguments you can put ...

```