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Open any file or URI using the default GUI application from within PHP.
- Available as Composer package eloquent/liftoff.
- Executable phar available for download.
- API documentation available.
Liftoff provides a simple interface to launch a file or URI in the host operating system's default application, in a cross-platform manner. Liftoff can be used, for example, to launch a HTML page in the operating system's default browser from within a command line PHP application.
Liftoff can be used as a library, to launch files and URIs from within a PHP application:
use Eloquent\Liftoff\Launcher;
$launcher = new Launcher;
$launcher->launch('/path/to/file.html');
$launcher->launch('/path/to/file.html', array('--with', '--arguments'));
$launcher->launch('http://example.org/');
$launcher->launch('http://example.org/', array('--with', '--arguments'));Arguments provided as the second parameter will be forwarded on to the associated application.
Liftoff comes with a command line interface which can be used to launch files and URIs from the command line:
liftoff /path/to/file.html
liftoff /path/to/file.html --with --arguments
liftoff http://example.org/
liftoff http://example.org/ --with --arguments
Arguments after the path (or URI) will be forwarded on to the associated application.