Author Topic: Calling a civicrm code from the shell ? (Read 1298 times)

xavier · April 23, 2008, 03:10:17 pm

Hello,

For some cases, like the cron calls,

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviMail+Installation#CiviMailInstallation-SettingUptheCronJob

it would make more sense to call a php from the shell instead of wget it via the webserver.

I saw various bin (/extern) programs. I tried to run them in a multisite config

I modified settings_location.php to set the proper drupal dir, but it looks on default. I want to be able to set the site as a param, but didn't succeed.

am I missing something ? What is the proper syntax ?

xavier · April 23, 2008, 04:08:32 pm

And to answer my own question, I've hacked the settings_location.php that way:

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// the directory name for your 'sites' location in drupal. We use the below location
// along with drupal 'conf_init()' function to figure out where the settings files
// are located. This is primarily used when we hit CiviCRM outside of 'Drupal' (via mail/soap
// etc)

//you can pass an extra param, the site name for the multisite drupal config
//SYNTAX: php soap.php example.com
//example.com being your site and the config to take into account being below it

$site="";

if ( array_key_exists ('argc',$_SERVER) && $_SERVER['argc'] >= 1) {
  $site= "/".$_SERVER['argv'][1];
}

define( 'CIVICRM_CONFDIR', '/var/www/drupal.5/sites'. $site );

?>

Do you think that's too much of a hack ? I'd investigate to use it for the crons as well if you think its worthwhile

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