PHP Scratch File Runner

“Run PHP” is a script to help run PHP scratch files when writing quick-and-dirty code. It has a couple of extra features over running a plain PHP file that can save a little bit of time.

1. Automatic Autoloading - When running a PHP file, it will automatically detect and use Composer’s autoloader if it exists in the current directory or a parent directory
2. Class Aliasing - If a class is used in the file that doesn’t exist, it will attempt to alias it to a class in the autoloader, just like Laravel Tinker

You can install the package via Composer:

composer global require futureplc/run-php

To use, just call the command and pass through a file path as a single argument:

run-php /path/to/file/to/run.php

With this, we can run a file, reference classes and functions in our app without needing to import the autoloader, and not thinking about namespaces most of the time because they’ll be aliased for us.

<?php

$user = new User();
$user->name = 'Liam';

dd($user->getAttributes());

// Aliasing 'User' to 'App\Models\User'
//
// array:1 [
//  "name" => "Liam"
// ]

Check it out here:

GitHub - futureplc/run-php: Run PHP is a single command to assist in executing PHP code in a file.

Run PHP is a single command to assist in executing PHP code in a file. - futureplc/run-php

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