Command Line Applications

CLI applications are executed from the command line. They are useful to create cron jobs, scripts, command utilities and more.

Tasks

Tasks are similar to controllers, on them can be implemented

<?php

class MonitoringTask extends \Phalcon\CLI\Task
{

    public function mainAction()
    {

    }

}

Creating a Bootstrap

As MVC applications, a bootstrap is available to

<?php

use Phalcon\DI\FactoryDefault\CLI as CliDI,
    Phalcon\CLI\Console as ConsoleApp;

//Using the CLI factory default services container
$di = new CliDI();

//Create a console application
$console = new ConsoleApp();
$console->setDI($di);

//
$console->handle(array('task' => 'shell_script_name', 'action' => 'echo'));