Zend Framework Bash Completion Script

If you use the Zend Framework CLI interface much you probably find yourself expecting tab-completion to work.  Well, with this bash completion script it will.  Just add the following line to your .bashrc or .bash_profile:

source path/to/zf.bash

Next time you load the terminal, you can type “zf c” and hit TAB twice to see a list of available commands (change, configure and create” or type “zf cr” and hit TAB to have “create” automatically inserted for you.  The script works for both action names and provider names (but not for anything past that).  Eventually I want the script to dynamically load the available commands (so that it works with custom providers and future versions of ZF without updates) but I couldn’t get that working for this version so I just hard coded them.

There’s also a version that completes commands from the Galahad Framework Extension if you’re testing that out…

Enjoy!

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