How to set the environment in a Symfony2 console command

Question

Hopefully a simple question - how does one specify which environment to use when running a console command in Symfony2. I\'ve created a few commands, however I would like to run

Answer 1

To answer the question @croca had, to expand on what @Francesc Rosàs posted, and as @Problematic suggested.

If you look in app/console you should see $env = $input->getParameterOption(array('--env', '-e'), getenv('SYMFONY_ENV') ?: 'dev');

All this does is checks the input arguments passed to the console for --env or -e, checks the default value from getenv('SYMFONY_ENV'), or sets it to dev if neither are supplied.

It is then passed to $kernel = new AppKernel($env, $debug);

You could essentially either make changes directly to app/console to achieve your application's specific functionality or copy app/console to a separate file such as app/exec, then process the $env variable how you prefer to determine the desired environment.

Simple Example: app/exec

#!/usr/bin/env php
run($input);

Then call php app/exec namespace:command arguments --flags

Additionally you could process your own application instead of using the app/console AppKernel - instructions from Symfony can be found here: http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/console/introduction.html