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totten/pogo
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Run PHP scripts with inline dependencies

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PHP On the Go (`pogo`)
======================

[](#php-on-the-go-pogo)

Pogo allows you to write small PHP scripts which use PHP libraries (courtesy of `composer`/`packagist`)... but it *doesn't* require you setup a special-purpose folder, project, or repository. To use a dependency, simply add a small pragma into your script. For example:

```
#!require symfony/yaml: ~4.4
```

This makes it easier to use PHP libraries for glue-scripts, throw-away scripts, quick experiments, etc.

Example
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[](#example)

Let's pick a small task that requires a few libraries -- suppose we want to generate a pretty PDF from a source-code file (`*.php`, `*.json`, etc). We'll need a pretty-printer ([scrivo/highlight.php](https://github.com/scrivo/highlight.php)) and a PDF generator ([dompdf/dompdf](https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf)).

Skimming the README for each library, one finds a few introductory snippets. I took these, added the `#!require` pragmas, and improvised a little on the `$html` variable. This becomes a small script, `code2pdf.php`:

```