For one of my projects I needed an interactive console command in Yii 1, i.e. the one that is gathering all information from user in an interactive mode (a serie of questions and answers displayed directly in the console), ignoring command-line arguments at all.
This behavior enable you to command the RBAC via console. This avoids you to install a entire rbac graphic toolkit to set up some rules in the rbac, maybe you are running inside a ssh console.
In advance template there is already a file yii. And there is no need to run it as php, it is Linux script.
I've gotten Yii running cron jobs, and wanted to explain briefly how I did it.
When someone want to send formatted HTML mails from a console application she/he will probably come across the problem of rendering view files.
Missed of autocomplete in bash console commands yii make me sad.
Whatever reason, it turns out to be easy enough to add that feature to your application. :)
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 th...