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

Make sure you give cake folder path in /var/www/html/Console/cake.php ini_set('include_path', $root . PATH_SEPARATOR . 'Cake' . $ds . 'lib' . PATH_SEPARATOR . ini_get('include_path'));

Then go to root folder. In my case the location will be /var/www/html/ then give the shell file name; hello is my shell name, that would be /var/www/html/Console/cake hello combining together /var/www/html$ /var/www/html/Console/cake hello

Your shell will be executed.

Answer 2

there is your mistake. you should always be in your APP path to execute the cake console.

...app/>../lib/Cake/Console/cake MyShell

or (using the APP Console folder):

...app/>Console/cake MyShell

and MyShell should then be in ...app/Console/Command/. Thats all there is to it.

Answer 3

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