# Webware-console (Improving laminas-cli/mezzio-tooling DX)

**URL:** <https://discourse.laminas.dev/t/webware-console-improving-laminas-cli-mezzio-tooling-dx/4106>\
**Category:** Show and Tell\
**Created:** [September 28, 2026, 9:40am UTC](https://discourse.laminas.dev/t/webware-console-improving-laminas-cli-mezzio-tooling-dx/4106 "2026-09-28T09:40:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tyrsson](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.laminas.dev/tyrsson/32/1664_2.png) [@Tyrsson](https://discourse.laminas.dev/u/Tyrsson)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 9:40am UTC](https://discourse.laminas.dev/t/webware-console-improving-laminas-cli-mezzio-tooling-dx/4106/1 "2026-09-28T09:40:47Z")

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(Full disclosure, I used an LLM to help prototype the proof of concept)

So mezzio-tooling is awesome, but my short-term memory is not the best in the world so I find myself constantly bouncing back and forth between the docs (or the commands code) to track down what options can be used with which commands. So, I asked myself - what if mezzio-tooling had a Menu?

I’m currently working on a set of components that will build on top of mezzio and one of them is a user manager and acl manager that needs database tables initialized just after composer installs them so I was working on providing cli commands and wanted a way to present a developer (mostly myself) with an easy-to-use cli command to build the required table and their user.

So, to make a long story short I used PSL and built a TUI in front of laminas-cli/mezzio-tooling which provides a Menu command.

It marks which arguments are required and validates that all required options are present and it reads the help text for the currently selected argument/option and presents it in the footer as you navigate through each one. It works but its super simple at the moment.. I built it for personal use but was curious if anyone else thinks something like this would be useful?

Currently it works for what I need in development and it works with the few laminas commands I’ve tested it with. Not tried it with mezzio commands yet since I need to check if mezzio-tooling can be installed with the component versions I am using.

 ![console-menu-main](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/zendframework/original/2X/9/91bf3defb680702c8ffb86e2d8187a60c0c7baae.png)

 ![console-success](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/zendframework/original/2X/2/22d5ce183aefdd51345da2d5c8c43cf9a36c7634.png)

 ![webware-console-dev-mode](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/zendframework/original/2X/3/3c7dec6ed042e6d1f427b17e10fbd7fde613f8bd.png)