CakePHP 1.3 - Calling requestAction() with router-created URL from a shell causes "Missing Controller" error

Question

I have a CakePHP 1.3 shell that requires the use of requestAction() to generate HTML from a separate controller. The URL for that call is generated using:

$url = Router::url(array('controller' => 'my_controller', 'action' => $action_str));
$data = array('url' => array('ext' => 'json'), 
              'return' => 'return',
              'pass' => array('an_id_str' => $an_id));

$action_str, 'an_id_str', and $an_id are the only things in my code that change between calls, and requestAction() is called as such:

$this->requestAction($url, $data);

Note: since $action_str can change for each call, it generates the new $url for each individual requestAction() call.

The first time the requestAction() call is made, it works great. The second time I call requestAction(), it throws the following error:

"Error: Missing Controller 'c:\...\cake\console'"

Any ideas what might be causing the router to mess this up, and how I can fix it?

One note - this actually happens in a couple different shells that use similar functionality.

I'm a little confused how the first and second time you call the function are different. Are you calling them under the exact same scenario or is the call dependent on some logic? My first thought is that URL rewriting is messing you up somehow. Can you provide more details about what you're calling exactly? — Grambot
The only difference is that the action sometimes is different, and the data supplied to the call is different. $this->requestAction($url, $data); where $url is the Router provided URL and $data is an array('url' => array('ext' => 'json'), 'return' => 'return', 'pass' => array('an_id_str' => $an_id)) — Derek
it calls a controller/action at the specified URL which generates files for export and emails the files to a given user. — Derek

Chuck Burgess Chuck Burgess · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-16T17:15:04

Thanks for the comment, that clarifies the question you are asking. What you need to do is specify to the Router::url call that you wan to use the full URL when building it. To do that, you just put the true option on the end.

$url = Router::url(array('controller' => 'tests', 'action' => 'trial'), true);

CakePHP 1.3 - Calling requestAction() with router-created URL from a shell causes "Missing Controller" error

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