CakePHP: Run shell job from controller

Question

Is it possible to use dispatchShell from a Controller?

My mission is to start a shell job when the user has signed up.

I\'m using CakePHP 2.0

Answer 1

In CakePHP-3 you can dispatch shells from the controller & do it almost the same as in CakePHP-2. The documentation does not mention this.

// in your controller:
$shell = new \Cake\Console\Shell;
$shell->dispatchShell('shell_class param1 param2');
// or how the docs suggest
$shell->dispatchShell('shell_class', 'param1', 'param2');

Beware of stdout & stderr in unit tests.

Dispatching a shell turns on stdout and stderr logging with ConsoleLogger, and will give you all the logging in your console if you have something like the code snippet above in code that you are testing from phpunit.