Command Line Tool Support

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This page appears in the Settings/Preferences dialog box, when the Command Line Tool Support plugin is downloaded, installed and enabled. The plugin is not bundled with IntelliJ IDEA, but it can be installed from the JetBrains plugin repository as described in Installing, Updating and Uninstalling Repository Plugins and Enabling and Disabling Plugins.

IntelliJ IDEA supports running commands of popular third-party or user-defined PHP tools:

• Symfony, version 1.1 or higher.
• Symfony2 that incorporates the Twig template engine. IntelliJ IDEA supports the official Symfony2 code style for Twig and automatically inserts one space after an opening pair of curvy braces and before a closing pair of curvy braces in Twig templates: {{ some_variable }}.
• Zend Framework 1.
• Zend Framework 2 (ZFTool).
• Yii.
• Composer Dependency Manager.
• Drush, version 5.8 and higher.
• Symfony console-based tools Laravel and Doctrine. These tools are installed through Composer.
• WordPress Command Line Interface.

This 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 .

Note that PHP-specific command line tools work only with local PHP interpreters.

Item	Tooltip and shortcut	Description
Enabled		When the check box in this column is selected, the commands defined within the corresponding command line tool can be executed from IntelliJ IDEA.
Alias		In a text box in this column, 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. c for Composer.
Tool Path		In a text box in this column, specify the location of the tool's executable file.
Type		A read-only field in this column shows the official name of the third party command line tool. The column is available only if the Show tool type check box is selected. For custom command line tools, the fields in this column are empty.
Toolbar
	Add ⌘N⌃N⌘N^ N⌥ Insert	Click this button to open the Command Line Tools dialog box 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:
	Remove ⌘⌦⌘⌦⌥ Delete	Click this button to have the selected tool removed from the list.
	Edit	Click this button to change the definition of the selected tool.
	Reload command list from executable	Click this button to have IntelliJ IDEA refresh the list of commands of the selected tool.
	Open definition in editor	Click this button to have IntelliJ IDEA open the .xml file with commands of the selected tool in the editor.
Show tool type		If this check box is selected, the Type column is added to the table of available tools.
Show console in		In this area, specify where you want to enter commands. The available options are: Pop-up - choose this option to have the Command Line Tools Input pane opened in a separate pop-up window and type commands there. Tool window - choose this option to enter commands in the Input field in the bottom of the dedicated Command Line Tools Console tool window.
Console encoding		From this drop-down list, choose the character set to show the tool's output in the Command Line Tools Console Tool Window.