Question

I’ve set up a CRON to call a URL in Kohana 3.

php /home/user/public_html/index.php my/route/in/bootstrap.php

It seems to access the URL fine.

However, I have received this error (send back in an email that my host sends per CRON)

Undefined index:  HTTP_HOST
SYSPATH/classes/kohana/url.php [ 40 ]

Source of url.php

Which is in a Kohana system file. Is this because the CRON job is not sending HTTP headers?

How would I fix this and get it to work (hopefully without hacking the core files).

Or am I doing the CRON wrong?

Update

Pekka provided a good answer, however I’d like to avoid changing the core files (though I will as a last resort).

It would seem Kohana 3 does have support for CLI, as there is a static property $is_cli.

http://github.com/kohana/core/blob/master/classes/kohana/core.php#L54

Answer 1

It seems like you have E_STRICT notification turned on, and Kohana’s error handling catches that. E_STRICT will complain about undefined indexes. The index is indeed undefined because there is no HTTP_HOST in a PHP script when called through the CLI.

Chances are your script is running fine despite this. You would have to turn down error_reporting at some point to prevent the message from showing up – I don’t know Kohana well enough to know whether you can use a different config file when called from the CLI.

Maybe just turning down the error_reporting() in your specific controller does the trick, although it’s a bit hacky.