Run Yiic directly from your app without a shell

How-tos

yiic, console, cli, command, shell

### Run yiic migrate in an action
#### Code

```php
private function runMigrationTool() {
     $commandPath = Yii::app()->getBasePath() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'commands';      $runner = new CConsoleCommandRunner();     $runner->addCommands($commandPath);      $commandPath = Yii::getFrameworkPath() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'cli' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'commands';     $runner->addCommands($commandPath);      $args = array('command', 'yiic', 'migrate', '--interactive=0');         $command = $runner->createCommand($args[0]);
 
        array_shift($args);
 
     ob_start();      $runner->run($args);      echo htmlentities(ob_get_clean(), null, Yii::app()->charset);     }
```
#### How to use
You can call it from a controller action like this:

```php