New in Symfony 3.3: "about" command

March 31, 2017 • Published by Javier Eguiluz

Warning: This post is about an unsupported Symfony version. Some of this information may be out of date. Read the most recent Symfony Docs.

Contributed by
Roland Franssen
in #19278.

In Symfony 3.3, the FrameworkBundle will provide a new console command called about. This command provides information about your Symfony application and your PHP environment. Its output can be useful to debug issues, so you should consider asking for it when a developer reports issues using your software.

As an example, this is the output displayed when executing about in the Symfony Demo application:

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        $ ./bin/console about

 -------------------- -------------------------------------------
  Symfony
 -------------------- -------------------------------------------
  Version              3.2.5
  End of maintenance   07/2017
  End of life          01/2018
 -------------------- -------------------------------------------
  Kernel
 -------------------- -------------------------------------------
  Type                 AppKernel
  Name                 app
  Environment          dev
  Debug                true
  Charset              UTF-8
  Root directory       ./app
  Cache directory      ./var/cache/dev (587 KiB)
  Log directory        ./var/logs (1.5 MiB)
 -------------------- -------------------------------------------
  PHP
 -------------------- -------------------------------------------
  Version              7.1.3
  Architecture         64 bits
  Intl locale          en_US_POSIX
  Timezone             America/New_York (2017-03-31T16:55:46-05:00)
  OPcache              true
  APCu                 true
  Xdebug               false
 -------------------- -------------------------------------------
    

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Comments

Gleb Sidora said on Mar 31, 2017 at 16:08

Nice thing!
Is there a possible to add custom information to output? Such possibility is definitely required if this is intended to supplement bugreports

Tac Tacelosky said on Mar 31, 2017 at 17:04

Great! Would love to see also the list of enabled bundles, and their version. It'd also be nice to have this as a service, to collect all the same info and render it with a website.

Alex Rock Certified said on Apr 1, 2017 at 14:18

@Sidora : I bet you can listen to a console.terminate event and add your own info if the "about" command was called ;)

Ghost said on Apr 2, 2017 at 09:33

@Tac Tacelosky bundles we're left out intentionally after some discussion; it's not really relevant to the current environment. The code is not rocket science so you can probably just copy it to some service. Note however this info is already displayed in the (web) profiler.

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