How to detect if I am in 'console' mode

Question

I am writing an app that runs from the browser. However, some model functions are also called from the Yii2 console. Therefore, I am getting errors when trying to access variabl

Answer 1

By default for console:

Yii::$app->id == 'basic-console'

And for web application:

Yii::$app->id == 'basic'

Yii::$app->id stores the id of the loaded configuration params. By default for console application it is 'basic-console' and for web application it is 'basic' (defined in configuration file)