Progress Helper

When executing longer-running commands, it may be helpful to show progress information, which updates as your command runs:

To display progress details, use the ProgressHelper, pass it a total number of units, and advance the progress as your command executes:

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$progress = $this->getHelper('progress');

$progress->start($output, 50);
$i = 0;
while ($i++ < 50) {
    // ... do some work

    // advance the progress bar 1 unit
    $progress->advance();
}

$progress->finish();

The appearance of the progress output can be customized as well, with a number of different levels of verbosity. Each of these displays different possible items - like percentage completion, a moving progress bar, or current/total information (e.g. 10/50):

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$progress->setFormat(ProgressHelper::FORMAT_QUIET);
$progress->setFormat(ProgressHelper::FORMAT_NORMAL);
$progress->setFormat(ProgressHelper::FORMAT_VERBOSE);
$progress->setFormat(ProgressHelper::FORMAT_QUIET_NOMAX);
// the default value
$progress->setFormat(ProgressHelper::FORMAT_NORMAL_NOMAX);
$progress->setFormat(ProgressHelper::FORMAT_VERBOSE_NOMAX);

You can also control the different characters and the width used for the progress bar:

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// the finished part of the bar
$progress->setBarCharacter('<comment>=</comment>');
// the unfinished part of the bar
$progress->setEmptyBarCharacter(' ');
$progress->setProgressCharacter('|');
$progress->setBarWidth(50);

To see other available options, check the API documentation for ProgressHelper.

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$progress->start($output, 50000);

// update every 100 iterations
$progress->setRedrawFrequency(100);

$i = 0;
while ($i++ < 50000) {
    // ... do some work

    $progress->advance();
}