Hi,

Would like to know if October CMS support running of python script at the backend, if yes how can we do it. thanks in advance.

To run a python script you basically need to call the python binary file passing a python script as argument. So you can write a console command to achieve this!

Hi Moshin,

Many thanks for the guidance! i have created the command class, but how do i call and execute the class. Thanks again.

First register the command with Artisan using Artisan::add(new Acme\Blog\Console\MyCommand); then to execute it use \Artisan::call('acme.mycommand’);

Hi Tempestronics-Android,

Which file do i add Artisan::add(new Acme\Blog\Console\MyCommand); in? Can i use \Artisan::call('acme.mycommand’); in my model file in afterSave() function? Is it possible? Thanks in advance.

It’s a good idea to put Artisan::add(new Acme\Blog\Console\MyCommand); in the plugin boot() method since you defined the command in that plugin. You can call \Artisan::call('acme.mycommand’); wherever you like based on your logic incl. afterSave. That is possible! Here take a look at this plugin. It uses the Artisan::call in onClear which is a handler defined in a reportwidget so that it gets called from the OctoberCMS dashboard. So it’s entirely upto you where you call it! Like for example, if I want to enable users to upload python scripts and then execute it then I would go about putting that in a controller as onExecute and put a button called Execute to run the script.

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Hi Mohsin & Tempestronics-Android,

I did manage to get it to call the function fire() in MyCommand.php as shown below. But the command 'python test.py' doesn't seems to execute. It is suppose to generate a .txt file which is no being generated. Am i missing something here? Would appreciate all your help.

public function fire() { $this->output->writeln('python test.py'); }

The following code is my python script which reside in my Model folder.

!/usr/bin/python

author = 'pwtan'

import sys

def write(): print('Creating new text file')

try:
    file = open('try.txt','w')   # Trying to create a new file or open one
    file.close()

except:
    print('Something went wrong! Can\'t tell what?')
    sys.exit(0) # quit Python

write()