How to start a php script from cli within wordpress

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I wrote a PHP script, which was meant to be a WP-Cron-cronjob and which uses wordpress specific functions. Due to some restrictions in its runtime enviroment, I need to start this script from the command line with /usr/bin/php -q longThing.php instead of as a WP-Cron event. How can I ensure that all the wordpress core functions are callable in my script?

If you use wp-cli to manage your Wordpress site (which is a good idea), you can use it to run arbitrary PHP in the WP context. See wp-cli.org/commands/eval-file — moopet
– moopet, Commented Dec 21, 2016 at 15:34

Glorfindel · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-19 09:05:51Z

1

Xaedes solution works quite well:

<?php
    if( php_sapi_name() !== 'cli' ) {
        die("Meant to be run from command line");
    }

    function find_wordpress_base_path() {
        $dir = dirname(__FILE__);
        do {
            //it is possible to check for other files here
            if( file_exists($dir."/wp-config.php") ) {
                return $dir;
            }
        } while( $dir = realpath("$dir/..") );
        return null;
    }

    define( 'BASE_PATH', find_wordpress_base_path()."/" );
    define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
    global $wp, $wp_query, $wp_the_query, $wp_rewrite, $wp_did_header;
    require(BASE_PATH . 'wp-load.php');

edited Mar 19, 2022 at 9:05

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answered Dec 21, 2016 at 14:46

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