How can I call a console command in web application in Yii 2.0 - yii2

Question

I have a console command to generate user report. I want to call the same from my web application. I am using Yii 2.0.0 beta version.I tried to follow answers given in this post How to call a console command in web application action in Yii?
Since Yii 2.0 structure is very different from Yii 1.1 ,I get errors if I try to include command/userReportController.php .Can someone guide me on this?

Answer 1

You should use an extension like https://github.com/vova07/yii2-console-runner-extension

Answer 2

I think this is the simplest solution:
$controller = new YourConsoleController(Yii::$app->controller->id, Yii::$app);
$controller->actionYourConsoleAction();

Answer 3

use this code:
$application = new yii\console\Application($config);
$application->runAction('controller/action');
I'm using this method instead of yii console command, because I'm running Yii on managed VPS where unix commands are not supported in cron, only php scripts.
To run it this way instead of console, the yii configuration must be initialized first, of course:
defined('YII_DEBUG') or define('YII_DEBUG', true);
defined('YII_ENV') or define('YII_ENV', 'dev');
require(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');
require(__DIR__ . '/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/Yii.php');
require(__DIR__ . '/common/config/bootstrap.php');
require(__DIR__ . '/console/config/bootstrap.php');
$config = yii\helpers\ArrayHelper::merge(
require(__DIR__ . '/common/config/main.php'),
require(__DIR__ . '/common/config/main-local.php'),
require(__DIR__ . '/console/config/main.php'),
require(__DIR__ . '/console/config/main-local.php')
);

Answer 4

Let's say your action is called file/convert, and you want to run it in the background:
$cmd = "cd /home/site.com/public_html/yii && nohup php yii file/convert >/dev/null &";
shell_exec( $cmd );

Answer 5

yii2-console-runner-extension keeps loading.
Try this:
It's yii (without ext, not yii.bat)
Make sure that php folder added to PATH variable (Windows)
$op = shell_exec ( 'absolute/path/to/yii ' . 'cache/flush-all' );
\yii\helpers\VarDumper::dump($op, 10, 1);
Output:
The following cache components were processed:
* cache (yii\\caching\\FileCache)

Answer 6

If you really want to run Console controller by Web controller likes migrate:
public function actionMigrate()
{
// Keep current application
$oldApp = \Yii::$app;
// Load Console Application config
$config = require \Yii::getAlias('#app'). '/config/console.php';
new \yii\console\Application($config);
$result = \Yii::$app->runAction('migrate', ['migrationPath' => '#app/migrations/', 'interactive' => false]);
// Revert application
\Yii::$app = $oldApp;
return;
}
Above sample code is for yii2-app-basic template, you could change path for yii2-app-advanced template.