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| author | Phil Sturgeon <email@philsturgeon.co.uk> | 2011-04-07 12:52:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Phil Sturgeon <email@philsturgeon.co.uk> | 2011-04-07 12:52:41 +0200 |
| commit | 8d63cc67bc8671c31e530f1d795bd82c8d3e60b3 (patch) | |
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| parent | f2f4ea49cccc8a8a14ec5f1b71fdba54b1990603 (diff) | |
Added CLI documentation.
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For example, a random C++ script could call one command and run code in your models!</li> +</ul> + +<a name="how"></a> +<h2>Let's try it: Hello World!</h2> + +<p>Let's create a simple controller so you can see it in action. Using your text editor, create a file called <dfn>tools.php</dfn>, and put the following code in it:</p> + +<textarea class="textarea" style="width:100%" cols="50" rows="10"> +<?php +class Tools extends CI_Controller { + + public function message($to = 'World') + { + echo "Hello {$to}!".PHP_EOL; + } +} +?> +</textarea> + +<p>Then save the file to your <dfn>application/controllers/</dfn> folder.</p> + +<p>Now normally you would visit the your site using a URL similar to this:</p> + +<code>example.com/index.php/<var>tools</var>/<var>message</var>/<var>to</var></code> + +<p>Instead, we are going to open Terminal in Mac/Lunix or go to Run > "cmd" in Windows and navigate to our CodeIgniter project.</p> + +<blockquote> + $ cd /path/to/project;<br/> + $ php index.php tools message +</blockquote> + +<p>If you did it right, you should see <samp>Hello World!</samp>.</p> + +<blockquote> + $ php index.php tools message "John Smith" +</blockquote> + +<p>Here we are passing it a argument in the same way that URL parameters work. "John Smith" is passed as a argument and output is: <samp>Hello John Smith!</samp>.</p> + +<h2>That's it!</h2> + +<p>That, in a nutshell, is all there is to know about controllers on the command line. Remember that this is just a normal controller, so routing and _remap works fine.</p> + + + +</div> +<!-- END CONTENT --> + + +<div id="footer"> +<p> +Previous Topic: <a href="urls.html">CodeIgniter URLs</a> + · +<a href="#top">Top of Page</a> · +<a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a> · +Next Topic: <a href="reserved_names.html">Reserved Names</a></p> +<p><a href="http://codeigniter.com">CodeIgniter</a> · Copyright © 2006 - 2011 · <a href="http://ellislab.com/">EllisLab, Inc.</a></p> +</div> + +</body> +</html>
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