Running custom admin scripts from PHP CLI?

[mdegrandis]

What I want to do: Run a php script in an endless loop from command line (using nohup). The script makes some images with GD library, and takes a while to execute-- running from a browser is too slow.

What it does: It will correctly tell that it is running from CLI and do echo's and other stuff. Then it hits a zen constant, like DIR_WS_CLASSES and spits out a message that it can't find that file.
If I try to load application_top.php it stops execution, and leaves no errors or warnings (that I can find).

Any php guru's have a tip or place to look?

Thanks again!

[DrByte]

It's probably croaking because your CLI isn't aware of the current path/cwd and thus isn't able to use those relative paths to find required resources. Fix your CLI ability to know where it's working from and use the appropriate includes_path, and you will likely have more success.

Although, why are you even loading application_top anyway? What specific Zen Cart capability do you need if you're making GD images?

[mdegrandis]

It's probably croaking because your CLI isn't aware of the current path/cwd and thus isn't able to use those relative paths to find required resources. Fix your CLI ability to know where it's working from and use the appropriate includes_path, and you will likely have more success.

Although, why are you even loading application_top anyway? What specific Zen Cart capability do you need if you're making GD images?

The rest of the mod is an admin page that allows modifying/creating the images. I was trying to off-load that time spent in GD to be processed separately, with Zend_Queue to be specific.
Since it started as a zen cart admin module, most of the code I wrote has a lot of defines I wrote in the zen cart style. Mainly paths for images, and database tables.
I'll see what I can do with your suggestions.

[mdegrandis]

I figured it out.
The problem went away when I commented out line 210 or so in core.config.php. This is breakpoint 150, and requires init_admin_auth.php.

I did this in an override....

 if(!defined('STDIN') ){
   $autoLoadConfig[150][] = array('autoType'=>'init_script',
                                 'loadFile'=> 'init_admin_auth.php');
 } 

And everything seems hunky-dorie!

Thanks again for your help, your advice on the directories was invaluable.

[DrByte]

Um ... be VERY careful there!!!!
If you skip running init_admin_auth then you have NO security on your admin logins!

I see you're using STDIN as a qualifier, which provides some measure of safety. But ANYBODY READING THIS DISCUSSION SHOULD USE *EXTREME* CAUTION when making such changes!!!!!!!!