Comments on: Run a Symfony Task from your Model or Action

By: Laurent

Laurent — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:39:26 +0000

However, in my case, I wanted to run the task several times, but I noticed that the launch of the second task remembered the first. This has its limits

By: Laurent

Laurent — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:23:49 +0000

after running task :
$this->redirect(’/appli.php/…’); // you can pass option in url

By: Brent Shaffer

Brent Shaffer — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:26:29 +0000

I’ve encountered this too, and I believe it does have to do with the chdir. In my experience, trying to chdir back to the previous directory does not work. What I’ve done in this case is split my task into functions I can call individually from where I was previously calling the task. This will skip the need to chdir altogether.

Please let me know if you find a better solution to this problem. Thanks!

By: Prasad

Prasad — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:50:24 +0000

Hey, thanks a ton for this !!

But the problem I’m facing that my action cannot find the template it requires. Is that because of the chdir?
Error: The template “onboardSuccess.php” does not exist or is unreadable in “”.

Appreciate any help

By: Dennis Gearon

Dennis Gearon — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:37:23 +0000

found out one thing that this approach WON’T do . . drop and recreate the database repetatively for testing with PHPUnit. Apparently, those actions are not transactionalble, or act like it with Postgres/Symfony/Apache/PHPUnit. See my blog post to learn ‘easier that I had to’ how to get around that issue.

http://php-rest-i18n.blogspot.com/2010/07/testing-symfony-apps-with-phpunit.html
I DID use the method above for reloading the fixture files, and it worked great.

By: Dennis Gearon

Dennis Gearon — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:33:23 +0000

Great! Thanks for the help. I’ll be able to use my super duper task now, from a test harness. Oh boy, (deep sigh), getting closer to understanding the Symfony framework and now they’re going to change it!!! Oh well, it’ll have some similar features.

By: Brent Shaffer

Brent Shaffer — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:42:16 +0000

In your test bootstraps (unit or functional), you should be retrieving an instance of ProjectConfiguration:

// Functional Tests
$configuration = ProjectConfiguration::getApplicationConfiguration($app, ‘test’, isset($debug) ? $debug : true);

//Unit Tests:
$configuration = ProjectConfiguration::hasActive() ? ProjectConfiguration::getActive() : new ProjectConfiguration(realpath($_test_dir . ‘/..’));

You can then use this to create and run your task:

$task = new sfFooTask($configuration->getEventDispatcher(), new sfFormatter());
$task->run($argumentsArray, $optionsArray));

I hope this helps!

By: valter779

valter779 — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:55:25 +0000

is there a way to run task from unit/functional test ?

By: Olivier

Olivier — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:08:54 +0000

expect that with sfContext::getInstance() you kill kittens. Please use $this->getContext() within an action (and do not call a task from the model !)