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-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/general/cli.rst2
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/general/common_functions.rst13
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/general/cli.rst b/user_guide_src/source/general/cli.rst
index 4145d5ccc..4f3b07d9e 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/general/cli.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/general/cli.rst
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ but they are not always obvious.
- Run your cron-jobs without needing to use *wget* or *curl*
- Make your cron-jobs inaccessible from being loaded in the URL by
- checking for ``$this->input->is_cli_request()``
+ checking the return value of :func:`is_cli()`.
- Make interactive "tasks" that can do things like set permissions,
prune cache folders, run backups, etc.
- Integrate with other applications in other languages. For example, a
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/general/common_functions.rst b/user_guide_src/source/general/common_functions.rst
index e085ef808..2dfec9cc0 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/general/common_functions.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/general/common_functions.rst
@@ -173,6 +173,19 @@ is_https()
Returns TRUE if a secure (HTTPS) connection is used and FALSE
in any other case (including non-HTTP requests).
+is_cli()
+========
+
+.. php:function:: is_cli()
+
+ :returns: bool
+
+Returns TRUE if the application is run through the command line
+and FALSE if not.
+
+.. note:: This function checks both if the ``PHP_SAPI`` value is 'cli'
+ or if the ``STDIN`` constant is defined.
+
function_usable()
=================