How to call a console command in web application a

Question

I have a console command to do a consumer time, AND I need to know how to call (execute) it in a web application action in YII.

class MyCommand extends CConsoleCommand{
      public function actionIndex(){
          $model = new Product();
          $model->title = 'my product';
          ...
          $model->save();
          .
          .
          .
      }
}

I want to execute this code.

Answer 1

Typically what you should do in these situations is refactor. Move the "common" code out of the MyCommand and place it into a class located in the components folder. Now you can place any head on top of the "common" code without altering your functionality. For example:

protected/components/Mywork.php:

<?php
class Mywork
{
    public function doWork()
    {
        $model = new Product();
        $model->title = 'my product';
        ...
        $model->save();
        ...
    }
}

protected/controller/MyworkController.php:

<?php
class MyworkController
{
    public function actionDowork()
    {
        $mywork = new Mywork;
        ...
    }
}

protected/commands/MyworkCommand.php:

<?php
class MyworkCommand extends CConsoleCommand
{
    public function run($args)
    {
        $mywork = new Mywork;
        ...
    }
}

This approach makes testing easier too as you can test Mywork as a single unit outside of the view you are using.

Answer 2

Accepting that we are on linux server, for Yii 1.1 real life example would be:

$run = '/usr/bin/php ' . Yii::getPathOfAlias('root').'/yiic' [command]
exec(sprintf("%s > %s 2>&1 & echo $! >> %s", $run, '/dev/null', '/dev/null'));

This will run Yii console command in the background.

Answer 3

try this:

    Yii::import('application.commands.*');
    $command = new MyCommand("test", "test");
    $command->run(null);

Answer 4

Also, another very clean solution from cebe on gist:

<?php
// ...
$runner=new CConsoleCommandRunner();
$runner->commands=array(
    'commandName' => array(
        'class' => 'application.commands.myCommand',
    ),
);

ob_start();
$runner->run(array(
    'yiic',
    'idbrights',
));
echo nl2br(htmlentities(ob_get_clean(), null, Yii::app()->charset));

Yii::app()->end();

Answer 5

I had same problem - i need to call action from inside controller and from command

I said same problem because it actually same - you have action which you need to call from console, and call it from controller too.

If you need to call an action(command) as a part of controller action, then i think you need to modify this solution a little. Or is my solution is enough for you?

So here is my solution:

first create action as said in http://www.yiichina.net/doc/guide/1.1/en/basics.controller#action

class NotifyUnsharedItemsAction extends CAction
{
    public function run()
    {
        echo "ok";
    }
}

then in controller action is loaded as usuall:

class TestController extends Controller
{

    public function actions() {
        return array(
            'notifyUnsharedItems'=>'application.controllers.actions.NotifyUnsharedItemsAction',
    );
}

and in command i run action in such way:

class NotifyUnsharedItemsCommand extends CConsoleCommand
{
    public function run($args)
    {
        $action = Yii::createComponent('application.controllers.actions.NotifyUnsharedItemsAction',$this,'notify');
        $action->run();
    }

}

Answer 6

Yii is PHP -> you can use the standard php constructs specified at http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php and the related methods near the bottom of the page, depending on what exactly you want to achieve.