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pear/console\_commandline
=========================

A full featured command line options and arguments parser.

v1.2.6(3y ago)255.6M—9.4%1320MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Dec 10Pushed 3y ago14 watchersCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/pear/Console_CommandLine)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/pear/console_commandline)[ Docs](https://github.com/pear/Console_CommandLine)[ RSS](/packages/pear-console-commandline/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago

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Console\_CommandLine
====================

[](#console_commandline)

A full featured command line options and arguments parser.

`Console_CommandLine` is a full featured package for managing command-line options and arguments highly inspired from python `optparse` module, it allows the developer to easily build complex command line interfaces.

Main features
-------------

[](#main-features)

- handles sub commands (ie. `$ myscript.php -q subcommand -f file`),
- can be completely built from an XML definition file,
- generate `--help` and `--version` options automatically,
- can be completely customized,
- builtin support for i18n,
- and much more...

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### PEAR

[](#pear)

```
$ pear install Console_CommandLine
```

### Composer

[](#composer)

```
$ composer require pear/console_commandline
```

Links
-----

[](#links)

Homepage[http://pear.php.net/package/Console\_CommandLine](http://pear.php.net/package/Console_CommandLine)Bug tracker[http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package\_name\[\]=Console\_CommandLine](http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package_name[]=Console_CommandLine)DocumentationUnit test status[https://travis-ci.org/pear/Console\_CommandLine](https://travis-ci.org/pear/Console_CommandLine)

[![https://travis-ci.org/pear/Console_CommandLine.svg?branch=stable](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5149ed6ac84475e827f6dfe089119f9d40c29ba38c5bf92791007e6285f8bd18/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f706561722f436f6e736f6c655f436f6d6d616e644c696e652e7376673f6272616e63683d737461626c65)](https://travis-ci.org/pear/Console_CommandLine)Packagist[https://packagist.org/packages/pear/console\_commandline](https://packagist.org/packages/pear/console_commandline)

###  Health Score

46

—

FairBetter than 93% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity55

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community36

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 76.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~534 days

Recently: every ~613 days

Total

6

Last Release

1142d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v1.2.1PHP >=5.1.0

v1.2.2PHP >=5.3.0

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

argument-parsercommand-linelibraryoption-parserphpconsole

###  Code Quality

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