Command Line Tool Support

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This page is available only when the Command Line Tool Support plugin is installed and enabled as described in Manage plugins.

IntelliJ IDEA supports running commands of popular third-party or user-defined PHP tools: Symfony 1.1+, Symfony2, Zend Framework 1, Zend Framework 2 (ZFTool), Yii, Composer, Drush 5.8+, Laravel and Doctrine (Symfony console-based), WordPress Command Line Interface.

The page shows a list of all PHP-specific and custom command line tools integrated with IntelliJ IDEA. Tools with inconsistencies in the .xml descriptor are marked with . See PHP command line tools for details.

Item	Tooltip and shortcut	Description
Enabled		When the checkbox in this column is selected, the commands defined within the corresponding command line tool can be executed from IntelliJ IDEA.
Alias		In this field, specify the character string to use in command calls instead of the full path to the tool. For example, by default, IntelliJ IDEA assigns the following aliases: s for Symfony, zf for Zend Framework, and c for Composer.
Interpreter		This read-only field displays the path of the PHP engine for the local or remote PHP interpreter, through which the tool commands are executed. For details on configuring PHP interpreters, see Configuring Local PHP Interpreters and Configuring Remote PHP Interpreters.
Tool Path		In this field, specify the location of the tool's executable file.
Type		This read-only field shows the official name of the third party command line tool. The column is available only if the Show tool type checkbox is selected. For custom command line tools, the fields in this column are empty.
Show tool type		If this checkbox is selected, the Type column is added to the table of available tools.
	Add Alt+Insert	Click this button to open the Command Line Tools dialog and select the tool to integrate with IntelliJ IDEA. Depending on your choice, IntelliJ IDEA opens one of the following dialog boxes for specifying the location of the selected tool: Command Line Tool Support: Composer Command Line Tool Support: Drush Command Line Tool Support: Symfony Command Line Tool Support: WP-CLI Command Line Tool Support: Zend Framework 1 Command Line Tool Support: Zend Framework 2 Command Line Tool Support: Tool Settings
	Remove Alt+Delete	Click this button remove the selected tool from the list.
	Edit	Click this button to change the definition file of the selected tool.
	Reload command list from executable	Click this button to refresh the list of commands of the selected tool.
	Open definition in editor	Click this button to open the .xml file with commands of the selected tool in the editor. See Define your own command line tool.