Added an event subscriber to display better error messages in the console

app/config/services.yml

@@ -22,12 +22,24 @@ services:
         tags:
             - { name: twig.extension }
 
+    # Event Listeners are classes that listen to one or more specific events.
+    # Those events are defined in the tags added to the service definition.
+    # See http://symfony.com/doc/current/event_dispatcher.html#creating-an-event-listener
     app.redirect_to_preferred_locale_listener:
         class: AppBundle\EventListener\RedirectToPreferredLocaleListener
         arguments: ['@router', '%app_locales%', '%locale%']
         tags:
             - { name: kernel.event_listener, event: kernel.request, method: onKernelRequest }
 
+    # Event subscribers are similar to event listeners but they don't need service tags.
+    # Instead, the PHP class of the event subscriber includes a method that returns
+    # the list of events listened by that class.
+    # See http://symfony.com/doc/current/event_dispatcher.html#creating-an-event-subscriber
+    app.console_subscriber:
+        class: AppBundle\EventListener\ConsoleEventSubscriber
+        tags:
+            - { name: kernel.event_subscriber }
+
     # Uncomment the following lines to define a service for the Post Doctrine repository.
     # It's not mandatory to create these services, but if you use repositories a lot,
     # these services simplify your code:

src/AppBundle/EventListener/ConsoleEventSubscriber.php

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+<?php
+
+/*
+ * This file is part of the Symfony package.
+ *
+ * (c) Fabien Potencier <[email protected]>
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
+ * file that was distributed with this source code.
+ */
+
+namespace AppBundle\EventListener;
+
+use Symfony\Component\Console\ConsoleEvents;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Event\ConsoleExceptionEvent;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Style\SymfonyStyle;
+use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;
+
+/**
+ * This application uses by default an SQLite database to store its information.
+ * That's why the 'sqlite3' extension must be enabled in PHP. This event
+ * subscriber listens to console events and in case of an exception caused by
+ * a disabled 'sqlite3' extension, it displays a meaningful error message.
+ *
+ * @author Javier Eguiluz <[email protected]>
+ */
+class ConsoleEventSubscriber implements EventSubscriberInterface
+{
+    // Event Subscribers must define this method to declare the events they
+    // listen to. You can listen to several events, execute more than one method
+    // for each event and set the priority of each event too.
+    // See http://symfony.com/doc/current/event_dispatcher.html#creating-an-event-subscriber
+    public static function getSubscribedEvents()
+    {
+        return [
+            // Exceptions are one of the events defined by the Console. See the
+            // rest here: http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/console/events.html
+            ConsoleEvents::EXCEPTION => 'handleDatabaseExceptions',
+        ];
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method checks if there has been an exception in a command related to
+     * the database and then, it checks if the 'sqlite3' PHP extension is enabled
+     * or not to display a better error message.
+     *
+     * @param ConsoleExceptionEvent $event
+     */
+    public function handleDatabaseExceptions(ConsoleExceptionEvent $event)
+    {
+        $commandNames = ['doctrine:fixtures:load', 'doctrine:database:create', 'doctrine:schema:create', 'doctrine:database:drop'];
+
+        if (in_array($event->getCommand()->getName(), $commandNames)) {
+            if (!extension_loaded('sqlite3')) {
+                $io = new SymfonyStyle($event->getInput(), $event->getOutput());
+                $io->error('This command requires to have the "sqlite3" PHP extension enabled because, by default, the Symfony Demo application uses SQLite to store its information.');
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}