$php_path = sfConfig::get(‘app_php_path’);
$script_path = SF_ROOT_DIR . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . ‘batch’ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . ‘mailer.php’;
$full_exec_command = $php_path .’ -q ‘ . $script_path;

// invoke the newsletter
exec($full_exec_command, &$output);

you can call it via php if you need to call it once in a while or put in a cron file if you need to do it periodically, its pretty much down to you. hope that answers your question.

How do I run these batch scripts?

Can I run these from the command prompt using :
>php batch/FileName.php

or Should I use cron to run them ?

Please explain.

Thanks.

Suresh

In the symfony book, it’s written:
” The symfony CLI offers an init-batch task, which automatically creates a skeleton similar to the one in Listing 6-3 in the batch/ directory. Just pass it an application name, an environment name, and a batch name as arguments.”
on the page: http://www.symfony-project.org/book/1_0/06-Inside-the-Controller-Layer#Batch Files

Thanks to your post, I didn’t have to search the code to understand the arguments needed by the init-batch script.

Thanks a lot!
Dave