How to use Ratchet websocket inside CakePHP shell

Question

I want to create a Websocket and need to access CakePHP ORM from this one. I'm using Ratchet Websocket with the following code:

<?php
use Ratchet\MessageComponentInterface;
use Ratchet\ConnectionInterface;

    // Make sure composer dependencies have been installed
    require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

/**
 * chat.php
 * Send any incoming messages to all connected clients (except sender)
 */
class MyChat implements MessageComponentInterface {
    protected $clients;

    public function __construct() {
        $this->clients = new \SplObjectStorage;
    }

    public function onOpen(ConnectionInterface $conn) {
        $this->clients->attach($conn);
    }

    public function onMessage(ConnectionInterface $from, $msg) {
        foreach ($this->clients as $client) {
            if ($from != $client) {
                $client->send($msg);
            }
        }
    }

    public function onClose(ConnectionInterface $conn) {
        $this->clients->detach($conn);
    }

    public function onError(ConnectionInterface $conn, \Exception $e) {
        $conn->close();
    }
}

To run the code:

$app = new Ratchet\App('localhost', 8080);
$app->route('/chat', new MyChat);
$app->route('/echo', new Ratchet\Server\EchoServer, array('*'));
$app->run();

I need to do two things:

1. I need to access CakePHP ORM inside MyChat class.
2. I need to start that class in a CakePHP task shell.

The second one is quite easy, but the first one I don't know how to init ORM classes to throw queries inside MyChat class.

Answer 1

I've solved it passing itself to MyChat constructor like:

$app->route('/chat', new MyChat($this));