How can I run symfony 2 run command from controller

Question

I'm wondering how can I run Symfony 2 command from browser query or from controller.

Its because I don't have any possibility on hosting to run it and every cron jobs are setted by admin.

I don't even have enabled exec() function so when I want to test it, I must copy all content from command to some testing controller and this is not best solution.

Answer 1

See official documentation on this issue for newer versions of Symfony

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You don't need services for command execution from controller and, I think, it is better to call command via run method and not via console string input, however official docs suggest you to call command via it's alias. Also, see this answer. Tested on Symfony 2.1-2.6.

Your command class must extend ContainerAwareCommand

// Your command

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Command\ContainerAwareCommand;

class MyCommand extends ContainerAwareCommand {
    // …
}


// Your controller

use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArrayInput;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\NullOutput;

class SomeController extends Controller {

    // …

    public function myAction()
    {
        $command = new MyCommand();
        $command->setContainer($this->container);
        $input = new ArrayInput(array('some-param' => 10, '--some-option' => true));
        $output = new NullOutput();
        $resultCode = $command->run($input, $output);
    }
}

In most cases you don't need BufferedOutput (from Jbm's answer) and it is enough to check that $resultCode is 0, otherwise there was an error.