Question

I’m wondering if there’s a way to call a page from wordpress from the linux command line (without using wget).

I mean, what i want is to do something like this:

The command line : (call some php file and pass a relative url as parameter)

$ php /var/www/something.php /my_blog/last_post

The response :

<div class='post'>
    <!-- the last post content -->
<div>

I’ve been googling and looking in the WordPress doc but i couldn’t find anything.

Thanks for your time!

Note: If you’re familiar with Cakephp, what i want is to do something like the Shell & Tasks but for wordpress

Solution:

I’ve created a file in the root of the WP folder, called command.php:

<?php
include('wp-blog-header.php');
// call the WP functions and stuff, according to the parameters
?>

to call it:

$ php command.php my_args

Answer 1

According to this support forum entry, there doesn’t seem to be a CLI interface for WordPress.

There seems to have been a CLI theme but it is outdated and no longer under active development.

However, it should be possible to write a simple PHP script that includes wp-blog-header.php and fetches the content you need. I have never tried including wp-blog-header.php in CLI mode so I don’t know for sure whether it will work, but it is definitely worth a shot.