By Loïc d'Anterroches, xhtml.net, 18th of February, 2011

hnu, the Command Line Manager

Photon has the symbol hν, this is why the Photon manager is hnu.

Some Quick Reminders

• Test your project: hnu runtests
• Test your project with HTML code coverage: hnu runtests --coverage-html=/tmp/photon
• Photon integrity check: hnu selftest
• Start the development server: hnu testserver (not a daemon, no tasks).

Command Line Use of Photon

To ease the use and the development with Photon the hnu utility is provided. hnu is fully self documented:

$ hnu
No command entered, nothing to do.
Photon command line manager.

Usage:
  hnu [options]
  hnu [options] <command> [options] [args]

Options:
  -v, --verbose         turn on verbose output
  --conf=path/conf.php  where the configuration is to be found. By default,
                        the configuration file is the config.php in the
                        current working directory
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show the program version and exit

Commands:
  init        generate the skeleton of a new Photon project in the current
              folder
  testserver  run the development server to test your application
  runtests    run the tests of your project. Uses config.test.php as
              default config file
  selftest    run the Photon self test procedure
  server      run or command the Photon servers

For example, if you want to have some help on the server command, just run:

$ hnu server -h
run or command the Photon servers

Usage:
  hnu [options] server [options]
  hnu [options] server [options] <command> [options]

Options:
  --all           run the subcommand for all the running Photon processes
  --server-id=id  run the subcommand for the given server id. If you start
                  a process, it will receive this server id. The default
                  subcommand is "start".
  --wait=timeout  waiting time in seconds for the answers. Needed if your
                  servers are under heavy load
  -h, --help      show this help message and exit

Commands:
  start       start a Photon server
  stop        stop one or more Photon server
  new         start a new Photon server child
  less        stop the oldest Photon server child
  list        list the running Photon servers
  childstart  used internal to fork worker children