News in Symfony 4.4 Console Output

October 22, 2019

Ramatou Adamou Issa

Table Display Improvement

Symfony console component already implemented a feature to display tables in the console output. See the link below. Display table in symfony Console

Symfony 4.4 added a new method in Table class to display horizontally(setHorizontale)

use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Helper\Table;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;

class SomeCommand extends Command
{
    public function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
    {
        $table = new Table($output);
        $table
            ->setHeaders(['ISBN', 'Title', 'Author'])
            ->setRows([
                ['99921-58-10-7', 'Divine Comedy', 'Dante Alighieri'],
                ['9971-5-0210-0', 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'Charles Dickens'],
                ['960-425-059-0', 'The Lord of the Rings', 'J. R. R. Tolkien'],
                ['80-902734-1-6', 'And Then There Were None', 'Agatha Christie'],
            ])
        ->setHorizontal()
        $table->render();
    }
}

This will display table horizontally like:

| ISBN    | 99921-58-10-7      | 971-5-0210-0         | 960-425-059-0           | 80-902734-1-6            |                       
| Title   | Divine Comedy      | A Tale of Two Cities | The Lord of the Rings   | And Then There Were None |
| Author  | Dante Alighieri    | Charles Dickens      | J. R. R. Tolkien'       | Agatha Christie          |

With SymfonyStyle, you can use the horizontal style directely;

use Symfony\Component\Console\Style\SymfonyStyle;

protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
{
    $io = new SymfonyStyle($input, $output);
    $io->horizontalTable(
        ['ISBN', 'Title', 'Author'],
        [
            // ... the rows ...
        ]
    );
}

Table SymfonyStyle List Display

When you are using Symfony Style, you can also display a list with Separator like this:

use Symfony\Component\Console\Helper\TableSeparator;

$io->definitionList(
    ['Version' => '4.4.0'],
    ['Long-Term Support' => 'Yes'],
    new TableSeparator(),
    'Timeline',
    ['End of maintenance' => '11/2022'],
    ['End of life' => '11/2023']
);

The output of this is:

-----------------   --------
Version             4.4
Long-Term Support   Yes
-----------------   --------
TimeLine
End of maintenance  11/2022
End of life         11/2023
-----------------  --------
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