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loophp/launcher

Open a file or a resource with the default OS application.

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OS Launcher

Description

Allows you to launch a file or a resource with the default OS application.

Requirements

  • PHP >= 7.1

Installation

composer require loophp/launcher

Usage

<?php

declare(strict_types = 1);

include 'vendor/autoload.php';

use loophp\launcher\Launcher;

// Open the default browser.
Launcher::open('https://github.com/loophp/launcher');

// Open the default file manager.
Launcher::open('/tmp');

// Open the default file manager.
Launcher::open('C:\Windows');

// The parameter $resource is variadic.

// Open multiple resources.
Launcher::open('https://google.com', 'https://github.com');

Code quality, tests and benchmarks

Every time changes are introduced into the library, Github CI run the tests and the benchmarks.

The library has tests written with PHPSpec.
Feel free to check them out in the spec directory. Run composer phpspec to trigger the tests.

Before each commit some inspections are executed with GrumPHP, run ./vendor/bin/grumphp run to check manually.

Contributing

Feel free to contribute to this library by sending Github pull requests. I'm quite reactive :-)

Languages

PHP100.0%

Contributors

MIT License
Created July 2, 2019
Updated August 14, 2025