The Yii shell provides a REPL for the application. This can be useful in experimenting with code or evaluating behavior from within the application.
This is provided by the YiiSoft yii2-shell project.
The shell is available via the Yii CLI with console/yii shell. This will provide a prompt that evaluates PHP code in
the context of a fully bootstrapped application.
In common usage, it is likely preferable to access this via one of the Docker containers
like docker exec -it sourcetoad_core_php console/yii shell. This allows for Docker based routing to the database
container and the Station/Satellite pair.
The shell makes available a number of specific commands.
dump provides a well organized and readable dump.
An input history is kept locally and can be navigated via the arrow keys, similar to bash.
While classes are autoloaded they must be referenced via full namespaces. If working in a particular namespace this can be assigned.
$asset = new common\modules\media\models\Asset()versus
namespace common\modules\media;
$asset = new models\Asset();