Question

<global>
    <models>
        <starmall_shipment>
            <class>Starmall_Shipment_Model</class>
            <resourceModel>starmall_shipment_mysql4</resourceModel>
        </starmall_shipment>

        <starmall_shipment_mysql4>
            <class>Starmall_Shipment_Model_Mysql4</class>
            <entities>
                <shipment>
                    <table>starmall_shipment</table>
                </shipment>             
            </entities>
        </starmall_shipment_mysql4>
    </models>
</global>

My custom grid in the backend is working and I see the grid with data in it.
As a debug test I have in my Grid.php in _prepareCollection:

    $x = Mage::getModel('starmall_shipment/shipment');
    $x->load(3);

    var_dump($x);  // WORKS and I get information

When I run this in a standalone script:

<?php
    define("MAGE_BASE_DIR", "/home/users/xxx/xxx");
    require_once MAGE_BASE_DIR . '/app/Mage.php';
    Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);

    $x = Mage::getModel('starmall_shipment/shipment');
        $x->load(3);

    var_dump($x);   
?>

I see this error:

No such file or directory  in /home/users/xxx/xxx/lib/Varien/Autoload.php
Failed opening 'Mage/Starmall/Shipment/Model/Shipment.php'

Why does it prepend Mage in front of the model?
What can be wrong in my config?

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ADDED INFORMATION:

/app/etc/Starmall_Shipment.xml

<config>
<modules>
    <Starmall_Shipment>
        <active>true</active>
        <codePool>local</codePool>
    </Starmall_Shipment>
</modules>

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THE REAL PROBLEM (POSSIBLY)

My Magento hosting provider puts this tag default int /app/etc/local.xml when installing Magento.

<cache>
  <backend>memcached</backend>
  <memcached>
    <servers>
      <server>
        <host>unix:///path/to/memcached.sock</host>
        <persistent>0</persistent>
        <port>0</port>
      </server>
    </servers>
  </memcached>
</cache>

If I comment this tag out then I don’t need to use loadModules() in my script.
I wonder if I need to turn this back on when going into production mode?

Answer 1

Have a look how Magento cron works – it works as standalone script also (cron.php) and copy-paste code to your custom module.
Main things:

 require 'app/Mage.php';
 ...
 Mage::getConfig()->init()

Also it seems like modules not loaded
Try to add after init config:

Mage::getConfig()->loadModules();