Running CakePHP Shell Script

Question

I have created a shell script as follows

<?php

class EmailShell extends AppShell
{
    public function main()
    {
        $this->out('Hello world.');
    }
}

When i navigate to the Console folder in command line and type cake email i get the following error.

Error: Shell class EmailShell could not be found.
#0 C:\wamp\www\gitgrow\lib\Cake\Console\ShellDispatcher.php(167): ShellDispatche
r->_getShell('email')
#1 C:\wamp\www\gitgrow\lib\Cake\Console\ShellDispatcher.php(69): ShellDispatcher
->dispatch()
#2 C:\wamp\www\gitgrow\app\Console\cake.php(33): ShellDispatcher::run(Array)
#3 {main}

Whirlpool

see more: #10672134 – Valrievalry

Answer 1

create a shell for use in the Console. For this example, we’ll create a simple Hello world shell. In you applications Console/Command directory create EmailShell.php. Put the following code inside it:

class EmailShell extends AppShell {
    public function main() {
        $this->out('Hello world.');
    }
}

Then run this command :

Console/cake email

or

cake email

Dimorph

thanks it worked. now when running a cron job. any idea what command i need to run for this script ? – Whirlpool

See my answer below, or is it not clear enough for you? – Therefrom

Answer 2

Run it at C:\wamp\www\gitgrow\app\. It should work.

cd C:\wamp\www\gitgrow\app
Console\cake email

Avlona

This worked but this is a totally unintuitive choice on the part of the Cake devs. I'm on Windows. It works when you're in the /app folder and you run Console\cake email. But if you are already in the Console folder and you run cake email it doesn't work. That's just ridiculous! Especially since they have you add the Console folder to the system path. ?!? – Sward

Answer 3

If your shell class is in the right place, then it might be a problem that cake does not know where your app root is. You can specify this using the -app argument.

cake -app ../app email

Nicholasnichole

i am running it inside the app/Console folder itself – Whirlpool

the path also has been set in the windows environment – Whirlpool

Answer 4

See the following link about how to run Cake shells in cron:

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/console-and-shells/cron-jobs.html

Your cron command basically calls cd into the app directory and the cake command to run the shell together.

Therefrom