README

Description

Plow is designed to be your new best friend when developing PHP application. At its core, it's just a plugin infrastructure for various command-line tools.

Installation

Plow should be globally installed with Composer. Follow these instructions to install Composer if you don't have it yet.

composer global require firehed/plow

If you have not done so already, you should append Composer's global bin directory to your path:

echo "export PATH=\$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

Usage

Running plow with no arguments on the command line will provide detailed usage instrictions:

plow

Adding commands

Plow commands are Composer packages with the type specified as plow-command. While not directly shown in the UI, you can search Packagist by type Once you find what you're looking for, install it globally like any other package:

composer global require vendor-name/plow-command-package-name

Developing new commands

See CREATING_COMMANDS.md

Contributing to Plow

See CONTRIBUTING.md