Using Kohana in File outside Kohana

1
votes

Here's the situation:

I have a catch-all on my domain email (so *@domain.com) redirecting to a piping script located at /home/domain/scripts/piper.php. This piper script is not within the Kohana ORM, but all of my other files are. I want to try to use Kohana inside this piper.php file.

I have tried (unsuccessfully) all of the following:

Including Kohana

I couldn't figure out what needed to be included, and more importantly how to override the url variable that Kohana uses to determine the right controller. Also, this is a catch-all piper, so it isn't using HTTP (to my knowledge), so much as executing a command.

Piping

I tried piping to the following:

/home/domain/public_html/index.php --uri="piper"

But cPanel makes this impossible, as you can only specify the destination script, and not the proper flags and such (unless I am missing something).

PHP exec()

I tried using the following line:

exec("php /home/domain/public_html/index.php --uri=\"/piper\"")

I was hoping that the stdin data would be maintained across the exec() command, but I could never get it to recognize the uri command, though I can run this on my localhost and it works just fine.

I was using http://www.coderelic.com/2011/10/creating-cron-jobs-in-kohana-3-x-is-a-piece-of-cake/ as a reference, but can't get anything to work.

I'm happy with either one of these solutions such that I can see an incoming email, parse it, then send emails based on the parameters.

Let me know if you need more information! I'm le stumped.

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phpkohana
On your php exec make sure to include the full path to php. If you dont know it, go to a command line and type "which php". I use something similar in a cron job. Example: /usr/bin/php /path/to/kohana/index.php --uri="/apn/index?task=fetch" – pogeybait

3 Answers

0
votes

/home/domain/public_html/index.php --uri="piper" would be a valid way to do it. If your host sucks and doesn't let you specify that, put it into a bash script instead and reference that.

If you are on any recent version of kohana (3.2 or 3.3), a better way to do this would be to use Minion to run the command line task. This is what Minion was designed for.

0
votes

All you need to do is to:

  1. modify your piper.php script to be a valid PHP class;
  2. place it in /application/classes/ folder;

Kohana will automatically load your class file (like include) during initialization.

Then you can use your piper class as usual class by $piper = new Piper; ....

UPD

You have to serve your emails trough Kohana.

Create controller, for example pipe (route it with /pipe URL):

public function action_pipe() {

    $pipe = new Pipe; // This creates new Pipe object (your emails serving class)

    $pipe->serve(); // Sserve emails within `serve()` method of Pipe class

}
0
votes

Although admittedly, I'm not sure if these other answers are correct because I can't figure out how to reproduce the results.

What ended up working for my situation was to create a Controller_Piper class that is called in the /home/domain/scripts/piper.php. What I did was to copy the code from /home/domain/public_html/index.php and changed the following:

echo Request::factory("/piper")
->execute()
->send_headers(TRUE)
->body();

This loads the piper controller and executes everything very nicely. Not sure if it's the cleanest, but it does work.