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

You can use wget command if your OS is Linux. For example:

wget http://example.com/controller/action

See http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_wget.htm

UPDATE:

You could write a simple bash script like this:

if wget http://example.com/controller/action
    echo "Hello World!" > /home/wasdownloaded.txt
else
    "crap, wget timed out, let's remove the file."
    rm /home/wasdownloaded.txt
fi

Then you can do in PHP:

if (true === file_exists('/home/wasdownloaded.txt') {
    // to check that the 
}

Hope this helps.