Yii2: How to create module commands without controller name?

Question

There was a similar question asking "how to create console command in a module?" which contains a good answer on how to add commands to your Yii2 modules.

However, the resulting commands must be in the following format:

./yii module_name/command/sub-command

where command corresponds with the console Controller name, and sub-command corresponds with its Action names.

How do we omit the controller name and have it list action names only so that our commands will be in the following format:

./yii module_name/command

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '18 at 11:27

I'm not sure what is the purpose of dividing console commands to modules, and hiding controller name (like making it a DefaultController).

But anyway, one of the possible solutions is to configure controllerMap in config\console.php file (considering you are using a basic template).

$config = [
    'id' => 'basic-console',
    ...
    'controllerMap' => [
        'module_name' => [
            'class' => 'app\modules\module_name\commands\ConsoleController',
        ],
    ],
    ...
];

So now when you run php yii module_name/<action_name>, it calls directly ConsoleController actions

..so i.e. php yii module_name/index results to module_name\ConsoleController->actionIndex() method

Seems like this is pretty much the *only* solution. – mae Mar 20 '18 at 13:46 — mae, Mar 20 '18 at 13:46

Yii2: How to create module commands without controller name?

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