yii2/docs/guide/console.md

Console applications

Yii has full featured support of console. Console application structure in Yii is very similar to web application. It consists of one or more \yii\console\Controller (often referred to as commands). Each has one or more actions.

Usage

User executes controller action using the following syntax:

yii <route> [--param1=value1 --param2 ...]

For example, MigrationController::create with MigrationController::$migrationTable set can be called from command line like the following:

yii migreate/create --migrationTable=my_migration

Entry script

Configuration

Creating your own console commands

Controller

Action

Parameters

Return codes