Is symfony console an alias for php bin/console?

[nbro]

It seems that symfony console is just an alias for php bin/console or simply bin/console because of the hash bang #!/usr/bin/env php at the top of that file). Is this correct?

Using diff to check their differences diff <(symfony console) <(php bin/console) returns nothing.

I suppose there's no preference and we can just use whatever we want, but I wonder why there's this alias, as this may create confusion

[javaDeveloperKid]

No. symfony is a cli binary written in Golang. php is php binary. However you can use both to run bin/console script.

[nbro]

I didn't say that symfony and php are the same thing. I said that symfony console is an alias for bin/console. I know what php is. It seems you have not read my post carefully.

[javaDeveloperKid]

I'm sure I understood your question. You've been learning Symfony for few months and I've been working with it for 10 years.

[nbro]

What is my question then and how did you answer it exactly?

[kira0269]

I think you can find some explanations in here https://symfony.com/doc/current/setup/symfony_server.html. There is a warning starting by "When using the Symfony binary with php bin/console (symfony console ...), the binary will always use environment variables detected via Docker and will ignore local environment variables."
So I think the symfony binary will add some logic before calling the console.

[kira0269]

Also, be careful: you compared the outputs of both symfony console and php bin/console.
As described in the official documentation, Symfony CLI provides many features, including deployment, local symfony project management, etc...
symfony console will not expose more commands than bin/console, but symfony cli will act as a wrapper to interact with your local docker containers for example

[nbro]

Here's the answer: https://github.com/symfony-cli/symfony-cli/blob/main/main.go#L73. It seems that what the Symfony CLI is doing is calling php with bin/console if we specify symfony console

[kira0269]

Yes, this is what I told you in my answer. But keep in mind that it also get environnement variables from the docker