Running a Zend Framework action from command line

Question

I would like to run a Zend Framework action to generate some files, from command line. Is this possible and how much change would I need to make to my existing Web project t

Answer 1

akond's solution above is on the best track, but there are some subtleties that may may his script not work in your environment. Consider these tweaks to his answer:

Bootstrap.php

protected function _initRouter()
{
    if( PHP_SAPI == 'cli' )
    {
        $this->bootstrap( 'FrontController' );
        $front = $this->getResource( 'FrontController' );
        $front->setParam('disableOutputBuffering', true);
        $front->setRouter( new Application_Router_Cli() );
        $front->setRequest( new Zend_Controller_Request_Simple() );
    }
}

Init error would probably barf as written above, the error handler is probably not yet instantiated unless you've changed the default config.

protected function _initError ()
{
    $this->bootstrap( 'FrontController' );
    $front = $this->getResource( 'FrontController' );
    $front->registerPlugin( new Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler() );
    $error = $front->getPlugin ('Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler');
    $error->setErrorHandlerController('index');

    if (PHP_SAPI == 'cli')
    {
        $error->setErrorHandlerController ('error');
        $error->setErrorHandlerAction ('cli');
    }
}

You probably, also, want to munge more than one parameter from the command line, here's a basic example:

class Application_Router_Cli extends Zend_Controller_Router_Abstract
{
    public function route (Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $dispatcher)
    {
        $getopt     = new Zend_Console_Getopt (array ());
        $arguments  = $getopt->getRemainingArgs();

        if ($arguments)
        {
            $command = array_shift( $arguments );
            $action  = array_shift( $arguments );
            if(!preg_match ('~\W~', $command) )
            {
                $dispatcher->setControllerName( $command );
                $dispatcher->setActionName( $action );
                $dispatcher->setParams( $arguments );
                return $dispatcher;
            }

            echo "Invalid command.\n", exit;

        }

        echo "No command given.\n", exit;
    }


    public function assemble ($userParams, $name = null, $reset = false, $encode = true)
    {
        echo "Not implemented\n", exit;
    }
}

Lastly, in your controller, the action that you invoke make use of the params that were orphaned by the removal of the controller and action by the CLI router:

public function echoAction()
{
    // disable rendering as required
    $database_name     = $this->getRequest()->getParam(0);        
    $udata             = array();

    if( ($udata = $this->getRequest()->getParam( 1 )) )
        $udata         = explode( ",", $udata );

    echo $database_name;
    var_dump( $udata );
}

You could then invoke your CLI command with:

php index.php Controller Action ....

For example, as above:

php index.php Controller echo database123 this,becomes,an,array

You'll want to implement a more robust filtering/escaping, but, it's a quick building block. Hope this helps!