How to call a console command in web application action in Yii? - yii

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

try this:
Yii::import('application.commands.*');
$command = new MyCommand("test", "test");
$command->run(null);
The 2 parameters with value "test" must be set but do not have an impact, they are used for the --help option when using the console.
/**
* Constructor.
* #param string $name name of the command
* #param CConsoleCommandRunner $runner the command runner
*/
public function __construct($name,$runner)
{
$this->_name=$name;
$this->_runner=$runner;
$this->attachBehaviors($this->behaviors());
}
https://github.com/yiisoft/yii/blob/master/framework/console/CConsoleCommand.php#L65

Answer 2

Try this
Yii::import('application.commands.*');
$command = new GearmanCommand('start', Yii::app()->commandRunner);
$command->run(array('start', '--daemonize', '--initd'));
where array('start', '--daemonize', '--initd') is a action and action parameters

Answer 3

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 4

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 5

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.

Answer 6

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 7

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.