Question

I’m creating a task in a symfony 1.4 project, and I need to update some tables.

I’ve written :

<?php
class dataImportTask extends sfBaseTask
{
  public function configure()
  {
    $this->namespace = 'data';
    $this->name      = 'import';

    $this->addOptions(array(
        new sfCommandOption('env', null, sfCommandOption::PARAMETER_REQUIRED, 'environment', 'dev'),
    ));
  }

  public function execute($arguments = array(), $options = array())
  {
    $databaseManager = new sfDatabaseManager(sfProjectConfiguration::getApplicationConfiguration('frontend', $options['env'], true));
    $connection = $databaseManager->getDatabase()->getConnection();
  }
}

(Following the example found on symfony-project.org)

But when I execute the task, symfony says : “Database "default" does not exist.“. Why doesn’t the task uses the dbname defined in databases.yml ?

Answer 1

It’s a common problem when working with task. You have 2 options:

• named your doctrine connection default in the database.yml
• keep the same name in the database.yml and add an option on every tasks to retrieve the right database name.

For option #2, you have to add an option with the name (the one define in your database.yml) of your database and then change the way the getDatabase works:

In the database.yml:

all:
  doctrine:
    class: sfDoctrineDatabase

Based on the doctrine name above, add the option in your task:

<?php
class dataImportTask extends sfBaseTask
{
  public function configure()
  {
    $this->namespace = 'data';
    $this->name      = 'import';

    $this->addOptions(array(
        new sfCommandOption('env', null, sfCommandOption::PARAMETER_REQUIRED, 'environment', 'dev'),
        new sfCommandOption('connection', null, sfCommandOption::PARAMETER_REQUIRED, 'The connection name', 'doctrine'),
    ));
  }

  public function execute($arguments = array(), $options = array())
  {
    $databaseManager = new sfDatabaseManager(sfProjectConfiguration::getApplicationConfiguration('frontend', $options['env'], true));
    $connection = $databaseManager->getDatabase($options['connection'])->getConnection();
  }
}