Interactive Console (REPL)

We offer an interactive console based on Psy Shell. The interactive console is a REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop).

Start interactive console by:

n98-magerun2.phar dev:console

It's possible to enter PHP code inside the console which should be parsed and executed.

Example code:

1+1;

time();

Object Manager

We also bootstrap your current Magento store and register the Magento "Object Manager" inside the console. The "Object Manager" can be accessed by a registered variable $di.

$page = $di->get('Magento\Cms\Api\PageRepositoryInterface');

With this feature you are able to run short tests in your development or production environment.

Code Generator

We offer some commands which can be used to create boilerplate code or even a complete new module.

  make:config:di                    Creates a new di.xml file
  make:config:crontab               Creates a new crontab.xml file
  make:config:events                Creates a new events.xml file
  make:config:fieldset              Creates a new fieldset.xml file
  make:config:menu                  Creates a new menu.xml file
  make:config:routes                Creates a new routes.xml file
  make:config:system                Creates a new system.xml file
  make:config:widget                Creates a new widget.xml file
  make:config:webapi                Creates a new webapi.xml file
  module                            Set current module context
  make:block                        Creates a generic block class
  make:helper                       Creates a helper class
  make:module                       Creates a new module
  modules                           List all modules
  make:class                        Creates a generic class
  make:command                      Creates a cli command
  make:controller                   Creates a controller action class
  make:model                        Creates a model class
  make:interface                    Creates a generic interface
  make:theme                        Creates a new theme

The idea is that you can create a new module with make:module command or switch in the context of an existing module with the module command. Inside this context it's possible to generate config files, classes, etc

Know Issues

We also work on support for switching the app area. Currently only the "global" area is loaded. In some cases (errors) we loose the context of the module.