Using a plugin component from shell class in cakephp 2.0.2

Question

I would like to make use of a plugin component from my shell class. I am trying to use:

App::import('Component', 'Myplugin.Mycomponent');
$this->Mycomponent =& new MycomponentComponent();

Unfortunately the above seems to fail.

And I get an error message saying that the Component class could not be found.

Any suggestion how I should tackle this?

Thanks

Rosemarie

Answer 1

you should always take a look at the test cases first! this way you would have found out that they are manually included this way:

App::uses('ComponentCollection', 'Controller');
App::uses('AppleComponent', 'Myplugin.Controller/Component');

and

$Collection = new ComponentCollection();
$Apple = new AppleComponent($Collection);

sidenote: if you need to use a component somewhere else than a controller than you are doing sth wrong! you should extract the functionality into a model or lib and call it from both the component and the shell

Madai

thanks for you help mark. However I am unsure about the second line. I did something like this: App::uses('PokerAliasesWebService', 'Pluginname.Controller/Component'); Could you help me undestand? Thank you. – Rosemarie

sry, I corrected my statement from above: it is App::uses('PokerAliasesWebServiceComponent', ...) – Madai

ok so my code currently looks like this: App::uses('Component', 'Controller'); App::uses('PokerAliasesWebServiceComponent', 'Pluginname.Controller/Component'); $Collection = new ComponentCollection(); $this->PokerAliasesWebService = new PokerAliasesWebServiceComponent($Collection); but I get an error saying the ComponentCollection class could not be found. – Rosemarie

you do realize that Pluginname should be your plugin name, right? I edited my post accordingly. – Madai

Hi mark, yes I tried that too but I still get the ComponentCollection class not found error. – Rosemarie

again, looking at the test cases helps: you will probably also need App::uses('Controller', 'Controller'); – Madai

I edited my answer to show how component collection can be added manually – Madai

Alright that works :) ... Thanks for your help. Where do I find these test cases you mention? – Rosemarie

Answer 2

I know this is hella old, but I just ran into this while working on a legacy CakePHP 2 application.

In your controller:

public $components = array(
    'Myplugin.Mycomponent',
);

You can then access the component via:

$this->Mycomponent->mymethod();

Source

Shearer