Comments on: PHP: Writing a Console Program in CakePHP

By: oh4real

oh4real — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:50:55 +0000

I’ve set up triggers in Models based on what is being saved or updated. For controller-based access, I used inside the Models:

$this->requestAction(’/mails/method/param1/param2′);

And it worked fine.

BUT, a Shell using the model and making the same save/update got no love as requestAction is banned in ShellDispatcher.

So, I did this and now use it in the Models, whether called by a controller via web interaction or shell called from crontab.

function beforeSave () {
App::import(’Controller’,'Mails’);
$this->MailsController = new MailsController();
$this->MailsController->constructClasses();
$this->MailsController->Email->startup($this->MailsController);
if(save some triggering value) {
$this->MailsController->method1(param1,param2);
} elseif(updating some triggering value) {
$this->MailsController->method2(param1,param2);
}

I am sure there is something horribly wrong with this, but it works and until I learn otherwise…

I also created the EmailTask for Shell specific emails, but might be able to use the code above as well to keep all emails in one location, ie /app/views/elements/emails

regards,
oh4real

By: calzone

calzone — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:05:57 +0000

Cakebaker (http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2007/05/07/writing-a-custom-cakephp-console-script/) resolved my issue.

The answer is that after the instantiation, the controller needs to be initialized:

$this->CitiesController = new CitiesController();
$this->CitiesController->constructClasses();

The cake manual mentions this method at http://book.cakephp.org/view/429/constructClasses

By: calzone

calzone — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:44:07 +0000

I tried setting up a console program following your example here but was stymied by the fact that even though a controller action can be invoked from the console, any model method calls that action contains will fail with “Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object.”

Am I doing something wrong or is there some additional scoping workaround I need to add to the code somehow somewhere?