CakePHP 2 Shell Arguments help / example

cakephp, cakephp-2.0

Solution

You should set up the arguments when the option parser is set up:

public function getOptionParser() {
    $parser = parent::getOptionParser();
    //configure parser
    return $parser;
}

This ensures that the options and arguments are set up prior to dispatching the call. Also, from what it looks like, you're wanting `addOption()` instead of `addArgument()`.

Problem

I can't seem to find a simple concrete example of how to receive an argument on a CakePHP 2 shell script. ``` class TestShell extends AppShell { public function argumentTest(){ $parser = parent::getOptionParser(); $parser->addArgument('testArgument', array('short' => 't','help' => 'The test argument')); var_dump($this->params); } } ``` I then try and call it: Console/cake TestShell argumentTest --t 45 Console/cake TestShell argumentTest -t 45 Console/cake TestShell argumentTest --testArgument 45 Console/cake TestShell argumentTest -testArgument 45 with all of the above I get this as a response: ``` Usage: cake lot_web_service [-h] [-v] [-q] ``` What am I doing wrong?

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