Posted by Steve on 05/18/07 16:51

i'm trying to re-use scripts, typically called via a browser, in the php
cli. the cli calls are made through cron jobs. i'm hitting some unknowns as
to path info. here's the error i'm getting thus far:

"PHP Warning: require_once(../../../../../../site.cfg.php): failed to open
stream: No such file or directory in
/var/www/html/dev/admin/cli/import.repair.orders.cli.php on line 5"

i'm executing the cli from:

/home/me/www/dev/admin (www is a symlink to /var/www/html/)

first, what is the current directory for php cli when executed from a cron?
second, will i need to adjust the current directory or anything else so that
other included/required files (normally accessed via a browser) are
referenced correctly?

thanks for your input.


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here's the pertanent code...

my include path is:

/usr/share/pear

in that directory i have a file named relative.path.php. its purpose is to
abstract/simplify inclusionary script paths. it looks like:

<?
$parsedUri = dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$parsedUri .= substr($parsedUri, -1) != '/' ? '/' : '';
$relativeUri = str_replace('/', '', $parsedUri);
$relativePath = strlen($parsedUri) - strlen($relativeUri) - 1;
if ($relativePath < 0){ $relativePath = 0; }
$relativePath = str_repeat('../', $relativePath);
if (!$relativePath){ $relativePath = './'; }
?>

i'm wrapping the files i'm trying to re-use via cli in code similar to (call
it, import.financials.cli.php):

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?
$cli = true;
require_once 'relative.path.php';
require_once $relativePath . 'site.cfg.php';
require_once site::$rootDirectory . 'admin/import.financials.php';
?>

the site.cfg.php creates a singleton class 'site' and $rootDirectory would
be the absolute path to the web root. import.financials.php begins like
this:

<?
if (!$cli)
{
$pageTitle = 'Import Financials';
$fullHeader = false;
$securityEnabled = true;
require_once 'relative.path.php';
require_once $relativePath . 'site.cfg.php';
require_once site::$includeDirectory . 'head.inc.php';
}
?>

however, as the error indicated, we never get to this point since
import.financials.cli.php cannot find site.cfg.php (as it normally would if
called from a browser).

tia,

me

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