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Sometimes it would be nice if we could run yiic from an action, for example a migrate database button in our admin panel. Or because you are on a host which doesn't have shell access. Or maybe you are not allowed run popen or exec.

Missed of autocomplete in bash console commands yii make me sad.

When someone want to send formatted HTML mails from a console application she/he will probably come across the problem of rendering view files.

One can control the detail of a web application in the webroot/index.php file by manipulating the values of YII_DEBUG and YII_TRACE_LEVEL, but these don't appear to be used by console applications. This is because although the base CApplication class defines a displayError() method that does consider these variable, CConsoleApplication overrides it with a function that doesn't honor them.

I've gotten Yii running cron jobs, and wanted to explain briefly how I did it.