May 3, 2018 Javier Eguiluz

The main new feature of the Console component in Symfony 4.1 is the advanced output control that lets you update different parts of the output simultaneously. However, we improved the the Console with other minor changes too.

Automatically run the suggested command¶ Contributed by

Pierre du Plessis

in #25732. In Symfony, when you mistype the command name you see an error message with a list of similarly named commands. In Symfony 4.1, when there's only one alternative command, you get the option to run it right away: 1 2 3 4 $ ./bin/console app:user:impot Command "app:user:impot" not defined. Do you want to run "app:user:import" instead? [y/n]

New table styles¶ Contributed by

Dany Maillard

in #25301 and #26693. In Symfony 4.1, tables displayed as part of the command output can select two new styles called box and box-double : 1 2 $table -> setStyle ( 'box' ); $table -> render (); 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ┌───────────────┬──────────────────────────┬──────────────────┐ │ ISBN │ Title │ Author │ ├───────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────┤ │ 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 │ └───────────────┴──────────────────────────┴──────────────────┘ 1 2 $table -> setStyle ( 'box-double' ); $table -> render (); 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ╔═══════════════╤══════════════════════════╤══════════════════╗ ║ ISBN │ Title │ Author ║ ╠═══════════════╪══════════════════════════╪══════════════════╣ ║ 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 ║ ╚═══════════════╧══════════════════════════╧══════════════════╝

New methods to customize tables¶ Contributed by

Dany Maillard

in #25456. In addition to the new table styles, in Symfony 4.1 we've deprecated some methods ( setHorizontalBorderChar() , setVerticalBorderChar() , setCrossingChar() ) to introduce more powerful methods that will allow you to customize every single character used to draw the table borders. For example, the new setCrossingChars() can customize 9 different characters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 public function setCrossingChars ( string $cross , string $topLeft , string $topMid , string $topRight , string $midRight , string $bottomRight , string $bottomMid , string $bottomLeft , string $midLeft ); // * 1---------------2-----------------------2------------------3 // | ISBN | Title | Author | // 8---------------0-----------------------0------------------4 // | 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 | // 7---------------6-----------------------6------------------5 // @param string $cross Crossing char (see #0 of example) // @param string $topLeft Top left char (see #1 of example) // @param string $topMid Top mid char (see #2 of example) // @param string $topRight Top right char (see #3 of example) // @param string $midRight Mid right char (see #4 of example) // @param string $bottomRight Bottom right char (see #5 of example) // @param string $bottomMid Bottom mid char (see #6 of example) // @param string $bottomLeft Bottom left char (see #7 of example) // @param string $midLeft Mid left char (see #8 of example)