Yii2: run console command from controller in vendor directory - php

Question

I am doing some refactoring of our large work app. This involves separating out some tools I've build, like a schema/seed migration tool for the command line, in to their own repositories to be used by multiple applications.
If it's in console/controllers, it gets picked up. If I move them to their own repository and require it via Composer, how do I get Yii to know when I say php yii db/up, i mean go to the new\vendor\namespace\DbController#actionup ?

Answer 1

If you create an extension (and load it through composer of course), you can locate Module.php inside, which will hold path to console controllers (that you can call with your terminal).
I will write my example for common\modules\commander namespace, for vendor extension your namespace will differ, but it work for all of them the same way.
So I have the following file structure for my extension
<app>
common
modules
commander
controllers
• TestController.php
• Module.php
My Module class looks as follow:
namespace common\modules\commander;
use yii\base\Module as BaseModule;
class Module extends BaseModule
{
public $controllerNamespace = 'common\modules\commander\controllers';
public function init()
{
parent::init();
}
}
And TestController.php is inherited from yii\console\Controller:
namespace common\modules\commander\controllers;
use yii\console\Controller;
class TestController extends Controller
{
public function actionIndex()
{
echo 123;
}
}
And the main part to make everything work is to register out Module.php in console/config/main.php settings
'modules' => [
'commander' => [
'class' => \common\modules\commander\Module::className(),
],
...
],
Here it is, now you can use your command like:
yii commander/test/index
And it'll print you 123, showing that everything works and Console Controllers are located in different folders!