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I recently took the Symfony2 plunge and started working on a little fun side project (more on that later).

Anyway, this particular project involves sending out daily text messages using the rather awesome Twilio API so I decided to use a Symfony2 task for this. The documentation on how to actually add your own task is a bit sparse so I figured I’d share.

The process is actually pretty straight forward:

1. In your bundle create a directory named “Command” (without the quotes).
2. Create a file that extends ContainerAwareCommand
3. Create a protected function configure – “protected function configure()” to allow you to configure the name of your task and add any options or arguments you might need.
4. Create a protected function execute – “protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)” to actually do whatever needs to be done.
5. Thats it! Now you can run app/console and you’ll see your task.

Here is the code for mine:

	<?php
	namespace Setfive\SextDejourBundle\Command;
	use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Command\ContainerAwareCommand;
	use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;
	use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
	use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
	use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
	class SendTextsCommand extends ContainerAwareCommand
	{
	protected function configure()
	{
	parent::configure();
	$this->setName('sj:sendTexts')
	->setDescription('Sends the day\'s sexts to everyone.');
	}
	protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
	{
	$ph = $this->getContainer()->get('doctrine')
	->getRepository("SextDejourBundle:Phonenumber")
	->createQueryBuilder("u")
	->getQuery()
	->getResult();
	$msg = $this->getContainer()->get('doctrine')
	->getRepository("SextDejourBundle:Message")
	->createQueryBuilder("u")
	->where("u.is_used = false")
	->setMaxResults(1)
	->getQuery()
	->getResult();
	$msg = array_pop( $msg );
	$msg->setIsUsed( true );
	// $this->getContainer()->get('doctrine')->getEntityManager()->flush();
	$accountId = $this->getContainer()->getParameter("twilio_app_id");
	$authToken = $this->getContainer()->getParameter("twilio_token");
	$myNumber = $this->getContainer()->getParameter("twilio_number");
	$client = new \Services_Twilio($accountId, $authToken);
	foreach( $ph as $p ){
	$sms = $p->getGender() == 0 ? $msg->getGuyText() : $msg->getGirlText();
	$res = $client->account->sms_messages->create ( $myNumber, $p->getPhoneNumber(), $sms );
	$output->writeln( $p->getPhoneNumber() . " => " . $sms );
	}
	return 0;
	}
	}

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