Creating full url from CakePHP 2.1.2 Console Shell

[Matt]

I am trying to send an email from CakePHP 2.1.2 via console shell
(eventually by a cron job). The view I am sending is a calendar with links
back to the applications web page. The problem I am finding is that the
urls do not include the correct path and from what I have read it is
because there is no request object since I am using the console. For
example, if I create the view in my browser I get links like this:


http://localhost/ReportMonitor/scheduledReports/index/show_date:2012-06-10/result:GOOD

but in the email using the same code I get this:

http://localhost/scheduledReports/index/show_date:2012-06-10/result:GOOD

which is close, but no cigar.

I have been trying to find the global that I can set somewhere to just hard
code the app subdirectory but haven't found anything that works yet. The
links are made by a code like this:

$newUrl = array();
$newUrl['controller'] = 'scheduledReports';
$newUrl['action'] = 'index';
$newUrl['url'] = array();

foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
$newUrl['show_date'] = "$year-$month-$key";
$newUrl['result'] = 'GOOD';
$data[$key]['num_complete'] = $this->Html->link(__('Complete: ') .
$value['num_complete'], Router::reverse($newUrl, true), array('class' =>
'green'));

I would think this is a common function (sending valid urls in console
generated email) but I just can't figure it out.

Thanks

[AD7six]

Post by Matt
I am trying to send an email from CakePHP 2.1.2 via console shell
(eventually by a cron job). The view I am sending is a calendar with links
back to the applications web page. The problem I am finding is that the
urls do not include the correct path and from what I have read it is
because there is no request object since I am using the console. For
http://localhost/ReportMonitor/scheduledReports/index/show_date:2012-06-10/result:GOOD
http://localhost/scheduledReports/index/show_date:2012-06-10/result:GOOD
which is close, but no cigar.
I have been trying to find the global that I can set somewhere

Since the cli doen't know what domain it's on, that's the right thing to do.

define('FULL_BASE_URL', "http://mydomain.com/subfolder");

Will allow you to generate urls on the cli.

AD

[Matt]

That's the direction I was thinking, but adding that code causes an error
about it already being defined. I echoed the current value and it is
http://localhost as expected. I'm assuming it gets set in the console
startup so I don't think I can redefine it.

Thanks

Post by AD7six

Post by Matt
I am trying to send an email from CakePHP 2.1.2 via console shell
(eventually by a cron job). The view I am sending is a calendar with links
back to the applications web page. The problem I am finding is that the
urls do not include the correct path and from what I have read it is
because there is no request object since I am using the console. For
http://localhost/ReportMonitor/scheduledReports/index/show_date:2012-06-10/result:GOOD
http://localhost/scheduledReports/index/show_date:2012-06-10/result:GOOD
which is close, but no cigar.
I have been trying to find the global that I can set somewhere

Since the cli doen't know what domain it's on, that's the right thing to do.
define('FULL_BASE_URL', "http://mydomain.com/subfolder");
Will allow you to generate urls on the cli.
AD

[Matt]

Aha, I figured it out! I had to hack the ShellDispatcher.php to change the
define statement This works if I just have one shell, but if I add others
I'll just have to create another global to use instead of having it
hardcoded. Actually, that might be a good idea for adding to the core
code.

if (!defined('FULL_BASE_URL')) {
define('FULL_BASE_URL', 'http://localhost/ReportMonitor');
}

Thanks!

Post by AD7six

Post by Matt
I am trying to send an email from CakePHP 2.1.2 via console shell
(eventually by a cron job). The view I am sending is a calendar with links
back to the applications web page. The problem I am finding is that the
urls do not include the correct path and from what I have read it is
because there is no request object since I am using the console. For
http://localhost/ReportMonitor/scheduledReports/index/show_date:2012-06-10/result:GOOD
http://localhost/scheduledReports/index/show_date:2012-06-10/result:GOOD
which is close, but no cigar.
I have been trying to find the global that I can set somewhere

Since the cli doen't know what domain it's on, that's the right thing to do.
define('FULL_BASE_URL', "http://mydomain.com/subfolder");
Will allow you to generate urls on the cli.
AD