Question

I have a script in app/vendors/shells which is executed periodically via cron. In that script I import the Router:

class AutosuggestFileShell extends Shell {
    var $uses = array('User','Country','City','Speciality','Alias');

    function main() {
        App::import('Core', 'Router');
        //...

But the script is not using the routes I have defined in routes.php. For example, I have defined:

Router::connect('/plastic-surgeon/*', array(
    'controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'profile'
));

But in the script the line:

'path' => Router::url(array(
    'controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'profile', $user['User']['slug']
))

is not generating the URL plastic-surgeon/slug – instead it generates the URL users/profile/slug.

Router::url() works fine in different points of the website, for example inside a view to generate a sitemap. Therefore I guess I need to import something from the shell script or maybe it is not possible to load the data contained in routes.php from the shell script?

(I’m using CakePHP 1.3)

Answer 1

IF you want to import the routes try

config('routes');