yii2 console unknown command - yii2

Question

Trying to run function _googleanalytics in controller ProcessingController, but getting an error:
unknown command
command:
./yii processing/_googleanalytics '2017-02-27' '2017-02-27'
controller path:
/console/controllers/
action
public function _googleanalytics($start, $finish) {...
controller
namespace console\controllers;
class ProcessingController extends Controller
{...
/console/config/main.php
return [
'id' => 'app-console',
'basePath' => dirname(__DIR__),
'bootstrap' => ['log'],
'controllerNamespace' => 'console\controllers',
'aliases' => [
'#bower' => '#vendor/bower-asset',
'#npm' => '#vendor/npm-asset',
],
'controllerMap' => [
'fixture' => [
'class' => 'yii\console\controllers\FixtureController',
'namespace' => 'common\fixtures',
],
],
'components' => [
'log' => [
'targets' => [
[
'class' => 'yii\log\FileTarget',
'levels' => ['error', 'warning','info'],
'exportInterval' => 1,
],
[
'class' => 'yii\log\FileTarget',
'levels' => ['info'],
'exportInterval' => 1,
'logVars' => [],
'categories' => ['calls'],
'logFile' => '#app/runtime/logs/calls.log',
'maxFileSize' => 1024 * 2,
'maxLogFiles' => 20,
],
],
],
],
'modules'=>[
'user-management' => [
'class' => 'webvimark\modules\UserManagement\UserManagementModule',
'controllerNamespace'=>'vendor\webvimark\modules\UserManagement\controllers', // To prevent yii help from crashing
],
'googleanalytics' => [
'class' => 'console\modules\googleanalytics\Module',
]
],
'params' => $params,
];
what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

You need to make an action to access it via console/terminal the same way as we access the actions via our browser.
For example if i create a Test Controller like below inside console/controllers directory
<?php
namespace console\controllers;
class TestController extends \yii\console\Controller{
public function actionIndex($param1,$param2){
echo "\nIndex";
echo "\n$param1 $param2\n";
}
public function actionMango(){
echo "\nMango";
}
}
and then type ./yii and hit Enter it will show all default commands available along with the following at the end.
This is Yii version 2.0.14.1.
The following commands are available:
....
...
- test
test/index (default)
test/mango
which means it registers all the actions inside the controller as commands and if you write in the terminal the following command,
./yii test/index omer aslam
it will show you the output
Index
omer aslam
where omer and aslam are the 2 params passed to the function.
So you just need to prepend keyword action to your function name i would suggest using action names according to the convention, change the function from
public function _googleanalytics($start, $finish) {
to
public function actionGoogleanalytics($start, $finish) {
and then access it via
./yii process/googleanalytics 2017-02-27 2017-02-27
you can wrap with quotes but it isnt necessary to add one a space identitifies between separate params.
Hope it helps