Using CI to create a command line app?

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Hello,

My application has two parts. A web based user interface and a background portion that is run periodically via a cron job.

For reasons of consistency, particularly in database access, I would like to use CI for the background portion. The only real question is how to handle the command line parameters so they resolve to a certain "page". I can think of a few ways that I might do this, but before I reinvent any wheels, I thought I'd ask here to see if anyone has done this sort of thing before and can offer any advice.

Thanks,

Fred