Hi,
I’m writing this, because I was struggeling quite a long time with the following annoying error and want to share this since there might be other people torturing google for search results…
I created a command class Foo.php and put it under /protected/commands. Then, I checked via console and typed yiic… the command was displayed alongside with
./yiic
Yii command runner (based on Yii v1.1.<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='8)' />
Usage: ./yiic <command-name> [parameters...]
The following commands are available:
- foo
- message
- migrate
- shell
- webapp
To see individual command help, use the following:
./yiic help <command-name>
But when I tried to run the command via ./yiic foo, it came up with
./yiic topupaccountsetting
PHP Error[2]: include(FooCommand.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory
in file /Users/tobi/Sites/yii/yii-1.1.8.r3324/framework/YiiBase.php at line 421
So what was the probleme here???
My Foo.php class looked like this:
class Foo extends CConsoleCommand
{
public function run($args) {
echo "Hello World";
}
}
So what was the problem here?
I forgot to put "Command" behind the class name "Foo".
It must look like this
class FooCommand extends CConsoleCommand
{
public function run($args) {
echo "Hello World";
}
}
That solved all the problems and the command is up and running.
The console.php config file is automatically used when running the command.
So running a command for a cronjob, you only need a ClassnameCommand extends CConsoleCommand in protected/commands which you can call via ./yiic classname
If it’s not working with your provider/webspace, maybe you should consider the php version running.
On Unix systems, you could force yii using PHP5 by changing the first row in protected/yiic to make it look like
#!/usr/bin/env php5
to have php5.
Hope I could help some helpless 
Cheers Linus