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Problem with CLI script routing or execution - massimiliano1.mancini - 04-22-2025

Hi All,
I'm trying to add some cron scheduled jobs to my site. I've started with a simple controller:

PHP Code:
<?php

namespace App\Controllers\CLI;

use CodeIgniter\Controller;

class Cronjob extends Controller
{
    public function cliMessage($to = 'World')
    {
        return "Hello {$to}!" . PHP_EOL;
    }
} 

When I call it in my public directory

Code:
php index.php CLI/cronjob message

no output is showed. The index.php and routing are executed for sure, infact if I make some mistakes on porpouse, they are showed. For example, this is the output of the following command

Code:
PS C:\develop\horizon\public> php index.php CLI/cronjob mAssage

ERROR: 404

Controller or its method is not found: \App\Controllers\CLI\Cronjob::cliMAssage

Any help is appreciated.

RE: Problem with CLI script output - warcooft - 04-22-2025

First, you have to define a route in app/Config/Routes.php

PHP Code:
// example
$routes->cli('cronjob/(:segment)', 'Cronjob::cliMessage/$1'); 

then run

Code:
php index.php cronjob codeigniter

// output: Hello codeigniter!

Also, your method is cliMessage not cliMAssage

See https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/cli/cli_controllers.html#let-s-try-it-hello-world

Problem with CLI script routing or execution - massimiliano1.mancini - 04-22-2025

Thank you for the reply.

(04-22-2025, 07:10 AM)warcooft Wrote: First, you have to define a route in app/Config/Routes.php

PHP Code:
// example $routes->cli('cronjob/(:segment)', 'Cronjob::cliMessage/$1');

I'm using Auto Route Improved, and according to the official guide, defining explicit routes like this isn’t necessary in my case:

Quote:Define a Route
If you use Auto Routing, skip this.

(04-22-2025, 07:10 AM)warcooft Wrote: then run

Code:
php index.php cronjob codeigniter // output: Hello codeigniter!

Also, your method is cliMessage not cliMAssage

See https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/cli/cli_controllers.html#let-s-try-it-hello-world

As you noticed, I intentionally used cliMAssage in the second example just to show that the framework is responding correctly. In the actual test, I use cliMessage as expected.

I also tried using CLI library commands like CLI::print, but haven't had success with that either.

EDIT:
I've conducted further investigation and found that the cliMessage method in the Cronjob controller is not being called at all. I ran a debug session and set a breakpoint on the output line within the cliMessage method, and I confirmed that this point is never reached. For this reason, I'm updating the topic title, as the missing output is merely a consequence of a prior issue: the method doesn't appear to be invoked correctly in the first place.

EDIT2:
Solved! The problem was that I forgot to update the Config/Filters.php file in order to exclude the cli/cronjob/message path from mandatory authentication

Code:
'auth' => ['except' => [

                '/',

                'user/login',

                'cli/cronjob/message']]

After this fix the method is corrected invoked.
I leave this post as it could be useful for other users.

Thank you

RE: Problem with CLI script routing or execution - gosocial2 - 04-23-2025

AFAIK, creating controllers and routes are not really necessary unless you want to expose some kind of RESTful service.

In my case I developed a bunch of 'Command's in App\Commands that can be run by both spark and any CRON job. It just works:

PHP Code:
<?php

namespace App\Commands;

use CodeIgniter\CLI\BaseCommand;
use CodeIgniter\CLI\CLI;
use App\Models\PageModel;

class AggregateBlogCategories extends BaseCommand
{
    protected $group      = 'Blog';
    protected $name      = 'blog:aggregate-categories';
    // the rest of the code 