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}

see more: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10671634/cakephp-shell-shell-class-helloshell-could-not-be-found/26845978#26845978 — Vy Do, Nov 10 '14 at 14:27

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '12 at 08:24

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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

answered Jul 19 '12 at 08:24

Krishna

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thanks it worked. now when running a cron job. any idea what command i need to run for this script ? – Harsha M V Jul 19 '12 at 08:35
See my answer below, or is it not clear enough for you? – Yoseph Sep 12 '14 at 05:21

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '12 at 08:27

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

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

answered Jul 19 '12 at 08:27

uzyn

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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. ?!? – Costa Nov 10 '12 at 00:31

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 19 '12 at 07:41

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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

answered Jul 19 '12 at 07:41

ifunk

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i am running it inside the app/Console folder itself – Harsha M V Jul 19 '12 at 08:16
the path also has been set in the windows environment – Harsha M V Jul 19 '12 at 08:17

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 17 '13 at 19:35

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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.

answered Sep 17 '13 at 19:35

Yoseph

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Running CakePHP Shell Script

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