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Kris
Kris

Reputation: 667

CakePhp2 defined CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH, now DS and CORE_PATH undefined in ShellDispatcher

In order to share CakePhp2 core between many sites I edited CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH in webroot/index.php to point to the cake directory. That works and I can reach my welcome page.

However, when I attempted to run the Cake Console, I ran into issues with ShellDispatcher.php not defining DS and CORE_PATH because they were only defined if CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH was NOT defined. Once I defined them out of the if statement which checks if CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH was not defined, I was good to go. However, I would prefer not to "hack" this file because I want to keep the cake core files clean. Are there any better and cleaner options?

I also had to defined CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH and use it to set $dispatcher in Console/cake.php which is part of the app of course.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1404

Answers (1)

Borislav Sabev
Borislav Sabev

Reputation: 4866

Yes there are. As a start never define application-wide variables in Webroot/index.php. As a matter of fact you shouldn't be touching this file at all. You can define variables in Config/bootstrap.php.

You were getting the error because when in a Shell you're not firing Webroot/index.php at all - you're actually running PHP's CLI and CakePHP fires off in a different manner. It will go through the bootstrap.php file of course.

You should also use this file to define any global vars, but there is a little bottleneck here when using PHP's $_SERVER variable's web server related members - e.g. HTTP_HOST and the definition: $myHost = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];. If you start a shell Cake will try to set this variable and it will fail throwing an error. This is because as mentioned before PHP will be running in CLI mode when the CakeShell is envoked. There is a way to detect this of course - you can use $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] or $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] in bootstrap.php to identify if you're in CLI or not. :)

Upvotes: 1

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