Input - Output Customization ============================ Behind the scenes Doctrine Migration uses ``\Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput`` to capture and parse values from ``$_SERVER['argv']``. You can customize the input like the following: .. code-block:: php require 'vendor/autoload.php' $input = new \Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput; $input->setArgument('verbose', true); return $input; And the output similarly: .. code-block:: php require 'vendor/autoload.php' // This is what Doctrine Migrations uses by default $output = new \Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput; // Enable styling for HTML tags, which would otherwise throw errors $htmlTags = array('p', 'ul', 'li', 'ol', 'dl', 'dt', 'dd', 'b', 'i', 'strong', 'em', 'hr', 'br'); foreach ($htmlTags as $tag) { $output->setStyle($tag); // Each tag gets default styling } return $output; If you are using the phar it is still possible to customize the input and output but you need to require the autoloader that's in the phar. .. code-block:: php require 'phar://migrations.phar/vendor/autoload.php';