Kohana requests from the Command Line

Kohana 3.2 has support for cli (command line interface), and can be used like this:
php -q /path/to/kohana/site/index.php --uri=cron/update_demo_data
This example assumes there is a Controller_Cron with an action_update_demo_data()

To set this up as a cron job, edit the crontab with something like this using the desired time settings
1 0 * * * /usr/bin/php -q /path/to/kohana/site/index.php --uri=cron/update_demo_data`
This example runs every day at 12:01am

In cases like the example above with having a Controller_Cron, it may be wise to lock down requests only to the command line (to prevent requests from the browser). This can easily be done by adding a hook in the before() method of the controller or in any specific action using Kohana::$is_cli
public function before()
{
if(!Kohana::$is_cli){
throw new HTTP_Exception_404('The requested page does not exist!');
}
}

For executing a command line request within Kohana or another PHP script (perhaps for forking) use this:
exec('/usr/bin/php /path/to/kohana/site/index.php --uri='.$request.' > /dev/null &', $errors, $response);
Kohana 3.2 supports internal requests via HMVC Show archive.org snapshot , so the command above may not be practical from within the Kohana Framework