Cakephp shell :Shell class HelloShell could not be found

Question

I am a newer to cakephp .I config the cakephp shell as the cakephp handbook says,when I run the HelloShell with the command cake Hello ,I got the error information as follo

Answer 1

Error: Shell class HelloShell could not be found appear because: typo mistake or run command at wrong directory.

Solution:

1. Setup path for php.exe, cake.exe

2. For example, my Cake website root is:

C:\tools\xampp1.8.3\htdocs\cakephp-2.5.5

Create new file in folder C:\tools\xampp1.8.3\htdocs\cakephp-2.5.5\app\Console\Command\HelloShell.php with content:

class HelloShell extends AppShell {
    public function main() {
        $this->out('Hello world.');
    }
}

3. Open cmd, type:

cd /d C:\tools\xampp1.8.3\htdocs\cakephp-2.5.5\app

cake hello

We use hello in command line to call HelloShell class, because "Convention over configuration".

Reference: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/console-and-shells.html#creating-a-shell