Running Symfony plug-in tasks via command line SSH on shared hosting

Question

My usual hosting environment is a dedicated server, however for one project I am required to deploy Symfony onto a Linux shared hosting account.

The project itself works fine, however, when I SSH in to the server the command line does not work as expected.

For example, if I navigate to data/symfony/bin then type:

php symfony 

this returns the list of symfony functions, but not the tasks associated to my plug-ins such as sfLucene.

How do I make the CLI aware of the plug-ins, so that I can run tasks such as rebuilding my sfLucene index?

Answer 1

Initialise the Symfony application instance at the top of the script you want to run, and stick the stuff you want to do in the script:

require_once('/var/www/domains/yourdomain.com/www/htdocs/config/ProjectConfiguration.class.php');
$configuration = ProjectConfiguration::getApplicationConfiguration('frontend', 'prod', false);
sfContext::createInstance($configuration);

(change to your own project path)

That's what I use to run Cron jobs or just execute Symfony stuff via CLI.

Does that help?

Answer 2

In the end, I asked my hosts to improve my access so that my scripts would run.

I could then run the default symfony file in the root of the project directory:

php symfony lucene-rebuild