Joomla 3 CLI Development

[Aaron Clausen]

As part of my upgrading my 1.5 extension to Joomla 3, I want to
offload some of the database importing and processing to batched cron
jobs. Some of the data crunching is pretty intensive and in some cases
the server is taking upwards of five minutes or more massage, import
and create relations between various CSV files.

I certainly could just write independent CLI PHP scripts to do it, but
it would be nice to write them in the Joomla environment to be
installed with the extension and to use the Joomla database functions
(including the Joomla config).

Any tips on this?

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Aaron Clausen
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[Michael Babker]

Check out the CLI scripts located in the cli folder to see how you can bootstrap a CLI application in the Joomla environment.

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Aaron Clausen
mightym...@gmail.com

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[David Hurley]

You can also checkout the JACS repository in github for Joomla! That uses CLI scripts with both local and remote servers using Joomla

http://github.com/joomla/jacs

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[Aaron Clausen]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:19 AM, David Hurley <david....@joomla.org> wrote:
> You can also checkout the JACS repository in github for Joomla! That uses
> CLI scripts with both local and remote servers using Joomla
>
>
> http://github.com/joomla/jacs

Okay, got a test script working from the command line. Thanks!

One question though. I'm using the following line to set the JPATH
(the actual PHP CLI script is sitting under
/joomla/administrator/components/com_newcomponent/cli):
define('JPATH_BASE', realpath(__DIR__ . "/../../../.."));

I'm assuming Joomla is going to maintain its current directory
structure for a considerable length of time, or is there another,
better way way to figure Joomla's root path?

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Aaron Clausen
mightym...@gmail.com