Jelix provides a CLI script, lib/jelix-scripts/jelix.php. it allows you to execute commands in your application context. Particularly, you are able to create and modify some files easily and automatically.

This script must be invoked with the command line version of PHP. So, open a console and go to lib/jelix-scripts/ directory:

   cd lib/jelix-scripts/      # under linux
   cd lib\jelix-scripts\      # under windows

Then, type this kind of command line:

# under windows
> php.exe jelix.php [--application_name] command_name [options] [parameters]

# under linux
$ php jelix.php [--application_name] command_name [options] [parameters]

You should always call jelix.php with a "jelix command" name, and optionally some options and/or parameters.

First, you access help on all available commands with the help command:

   php jelix.php help

Another generic parameter you have to indicate for most of jelix commands : your application name. This is always the first parameter of jelix.php, and it must be preceded by --. Example

  php jelix.php --myapp createapp

Alternatively, you can avoid typing your application name by setting an environment variable: JELIX_APP_NAME. For example, type this in the console:

  export JELIX_APP_NAME="myapp"        # under linux
  set JELIX_APP_NAME=myapp             # under windows

Then you can type any command without --myapp

  php jelix.php createapp

Notice that you can execute the script from any directory. For example, you can type:

  php jelix/path/lib/jelix-scripts/jelix.php --myapp createapp

Commands creating new files or directories follow a specific tree structure. Perhaps you may want to organize your files in a different manner. Also, there are some customizable infos stored in header comments of files, like your name, the project name and so on.

You can configure all of this by creating a configuration file for jelix.php CLI script.

In lib/jelix-scripts/, there is a file scripts.conf.php.dist. Rename it to scripts.conf.php, and modify its settings by changing the different values.

You can also create another file, in any other directory, (to have different configuration for each projects for example). If you do so, just indicate its path in JELIX_CONFIG environment variable.