MAGENTO 1.X – HOW TO CREATE A STANDALONE SCRIPT

In some cases, you would need to create different kind of tasks or processes, regardless the Magento standard flow.

That is when you will need a standalone script, and that’s a simple example of how can we create one.

Create a new file inside root/shell directory called test_script.php with the following content:

<?php

require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/../app/Mage.php');

require_once 'abstract.php';

class Offset101_Shell_Testingscript extends Mage_Shell_Abstract

{

public function run()

{

echo "¡Hello world!";

}

Mage::init();

$shell = new Offset101_Shell_Testingscript();

$shell->run();

Note: It’s mandatory to create the run() method inside our extended class.

Then, you can run your shell script, on your terminal, with the following command:

1	php -f test_script.php

It would be helpful for you, visiting this following article, where i’m showing many useful code snippets that are pretty common inside Magento shell scripts:

Useful Magento code snippets