Comments on: Shells and Tasks

By: CakePHP : exécuter une “task” via l’interface web - Damien Mathieu, développeur web

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:55:39 +0000

[...] de développer ce genre de scripts. Il en existe déjà un résumant assez bien la chose sur cakebaker [...]

By: CakePHP : effectuer une “task” via une interface web - Damien Mathieu, développeur web

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:28:49 +0000

[...] ce genre de scripts. Il en existe déjà un résumant assez bien la chose sur cakebaker [...]

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:00:11 +0000

@Debbie: I think it should be no problem to use a task inside a controller as long as you don’t use command line specific things in your task like reading user input from the command line. And you probably have to include the required files manually as it was not planned to use tasks in that way ;-)

Good luck!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:04:08 +0000

hi,

i want to write a console app which will do from cron stuff my web interface can do interactively. SO i don’t want my code in shells or tasks. i want my shells and my controllers to use the same stuff, the models and the components. unless my controllers can also run tasks, i would only write stuff in tasks which is only useful from the command line.

so do you think controllers can also run tasks or the code should go in a component or a vendor class?

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:08:06 +0000

@Diego: You can use something like:

loadModel('Post');
$this->Post = new Post();
$this->Post->findAll();

HTH

By: Diego

Diego — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:30:59 +0000

@cakebaker: Hi there! thanx for your help, there aren’t much examples out there, what i am trying to do is the following, from a shell script, i would like to access some data stored in the DB, Lets say the POSTS model for example, trying to get innactive posts or something like that. I’ve tried looking in the ACL shell without much success.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:47:22 +0000

@Diego: Hm, I don’t understand what you try to accomplish…

By: Diego

Diego — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:30:50 +0000

Hey this is very cool, indeed, but i have been trying to find out how to use; if it is possible?, my models in app/models
Has anyone tried to??

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:43:38 +0000

@Joel: Well, the advantage of using tasks over using multiple methods is that tasks can be reused in other shell scripts.

By: Joel Moss

Joel Moss — Sat, 19 May 2007 22:16:42 +0000

I suppose tasks are just a way of breaking up a console script into smaller tasks. Which is more manageable, but the same can still be achieved with one console script and a method for each task.

But each to their own ;)