How to call models outside CodeIgniter controller?

How do you run the ExportAlert.php?

If you run it in CLI, CI4 provides Spark commands.
https://codeigniter4.github.io/CodeIgnit...mands.html

If you just run like php /path/to/ExportAlert.php, you do not use CI4.
In such a case, you need to load or autoload all classes by yourself.

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