Integration of (new!) zend-console within MVC - does ist actually work?

Questions Components & MVC
1

I understand zend-mvc-console is deprecated. Usage of zend-console is encouraged. According to the official current docs MVC-integration is still possible. So I followed the docs and just added console config im my module.config.php:

return [
    'router' => [
        'routes' => [
            // HTTP routes are defined here
        ],
    ],

    'console' => [
        'router' => [
            'routes' => [
               'foo' => [
                    'options' => [
                        'route'    => 'foo',
                        'defaults' => [
                            'controller' => Foo\Controller\Index::class,
                            'action'     => 'index',
                        ],
                    ],
                ],
            ],
        ],
    ],

    /* ... */
];

However: Whatever I enter in the terminal ($ php public/index.php foo or just $ php public/index.php, $ php7.2 public/index.php doesn’t help either) it doesn’t matter index,php just always prints out HTML-Code into my terminal as if I would enter http://localhost/fooapp/public/ (with successful Code 200) in my browser.

I’m really getting desperate, why doesn’t it work? What’s missing? Glad for any helpful hint or link.
Thanks
m.

2

How does our index controller look like? Does your indexAction method include a ViewModel?
Similar to this?

public function indexAction()
{
    return new ViewModel();
}

If yes, that’s why you see html.

Maybe try something along the line of

public function indexAction()
{
    return "I am a CLI call";
}
3

Thanks. I tried that.

But the problem seems to be a different one. According to the docs on zend-console with MVC, runing $ php public/index.php without any arguments or routes on a terminal should simply output the current Zend Framework version plus a failure reason:

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I’ve got the impression ZF3 simply ignores my console config variables at module.config.php. For testing purposes I defined non existent controllers in the console config array, like this:

'console' => [
        'router' => [
            'routes' => [
                'default-route' => [
                    'type'     => 'catchall',
                    'options' => [
                        'route'    => '',
                        'defaults' => [
                            'controller' => 'xApplication\Controller\Index',
                            'action'     => 'nonExistentAction',
                        ],
                    ],
                ],
                
                
                'foo' => [
                    'options' => [
                        'route'    => 'foo bar',
                        'defaults' => [
                            'controller' => xxApplication\Controller\Index::class,
                            'action'     => 'nonExistentAction',
                        ],
                    ],
                ],
            ],
        ],
    ],

Neither does ZF print out a failure reason as supposed nor is a fatal error triggered since I specified non existent controllers or actions.

Any ideas anybody?:sob:

4

I know that’s not the answer you are looking for, but this github comment from MWOP is all I can dig up for you.

We have the following components related to console functionality:

  • zendframework/zend-console provides an adapter-based approach for working with the console at a low-level.
  • zendframework/zend-mvc-console provides bindings for using zend-mvc controllers to provide handlers for console purposes, using zendframework/zend-console.
  • zfcampus/zf-console provides a console microframework for writing console application using zendframework/zend-console. (zfcampus is the organization where Apigility, our API builder and runtime, lives; zf-console was developed there as we had need for easier console tooling within that project.)

I hope that clears up where each of these packages lives and the purposes each serves.

Regardless, each of these is considered deprecated . Maintaining them requires too much effort, particularly when there are other solutions in this problem space.

5

Thanks! This actually did help! :grinning: Once I installed zend-mvc-console in addition to the already installed zend-console it just worked fine!
Unfortunately the docs on zend-console don’t mention at all that you need to install zend-mvc-console in order to benefit fom MVC-Support for zend-console. Also, there is no hint about the deprecation thing. It would have saved me a lot of hassle if this would’ve been clearer in the official documentation! :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Is there a way to suggest a correction of the documentation to Zend?

6

You are welcome to do so. The documentation can be found on GitHub. Clone it, make the changes and create a PR for it :slight_smile:

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