Tim Nash - Building Text Adventures and Other CLI Apps in PHP
What do Homestead, PHPSpec, Behat, Codeception and Drush have in common? They are all CLI applications written in PHP. In this talk Tim will look at how you can harness PHP in building CLI based applications, using a simple old school text adventure game as his main example.
The talk will cover building command line interfaces, looking at options for threading and managing process as well as building and distributing applications as Phar files.
Building for the command line especially on multiple platforms brings some interesting challenges and potential pain points and so this talk is very much a wish I knew this before I started talk.