Comments on: Writing a custom CakePHP console script

By: redthor

redthor — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:21:36 +0000

That comment from Gonzalo and your reply just saved me from the
PHP Fatal error: Class Controller not found error.

thanks!

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:01:50 +0000

@Frederick: Good to hear you could make it work :)

By: Frederick D.

Frederick D. — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:47:42 +0000

Awesome! It worked!

Plus I went back and re-read the document about how to use SwiftMailer 4.x in CakePHP with shells. (http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/updated-swiftmailer-4-xx-component-with-attachments-and-plugins)

I had been reading multiple documents about SwiftMailer and shells and for some reason put the shell and task in /public_html/vendors. The article referenced above clearly said put it in /app/vendors/shells. Doing that, plus using the hints you gave me above, and the shell task works from SSH as well as in cron. The command I ended up with looks like this:

php /home/USER NAME/public_html/cake/console/cake.php -app /home/USER NAME/public_html/app reminders lof

Thank you VERY much for your help!

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:09:21 +0000

@Frederick: You would use $myModel to access the model, though you could also use:


$this->YourModel = ClassRegistry::init('YourModel');

if you want to access the model in the usual way.

By: Frederick D.

Frederick D. — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:10:02 +0000

Thanks very much for your response. I will try that. I’ve never used those statements before. This all works swell on DreamHost, but not on HostGator. The web site itself works fine for the database connection. I’m having a problem with the cron job.

With the App::import of the model, and the ClassRegistry, do I still reference the model in the same way or do I use the $myModel?

I appreciate your help.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:08:12 +0000

@Frederick: I don't think the error will disappear if you replace $uses with an App::import() statement, it will probably lead to the same error. But if you want, you can try the following:


App::import('Model', 'YourModel');
$myModel = ClassRegistry::init('YourModel');

I guess the problem is, as the error message suggests, related to the database connection. So I would first check whether the settings in database.php are correct. Also make sure the mysql extension is enabled in the php.ini for the cli environment (some systems use one php.ini for Apache, and another php.ini for the cli). Hope that helps!

By: Frederick D.

Frederick D. — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:15:33 +0000

I am having a similar problem as Gonzalo, only with the message “Error: Missing Database Connection”. I have posted information about the issue here: http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/e54fa739b47cc61f#

Your posts are impressive with the breadth of your knowledge of CakePHP. Would you please take a look at my posting above? Should I replace the $uses with an App::import statement? If so, what would that statement look like?

I found this in the cook book at http://book.cakephp.org/view/531/Importing-Controllers-Models-Components-Behaviors-

constructClasses();
?>

Is this what I need to do in my shell? Thanks in advance for taking a look.

By: Gonzalo

Gonzalo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:25:43 +0000

It works! thanks :)

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:20:04 +0000

@Gonzalo: To avoid this error you also have to import the controller class with:


App::import('Core', 'Controller');

Hope this helps!

By: Gonzalo

Gonzalo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:27:55 +0000

I tried too to do:

$player = $this->requestAction('/players/getProfile/6');

But I only get:
Error: Missing Controller ‘Players’

and my controller´s code is printed in the console