Calling CakePHP functions out of controller and app folder

Question

I have a CakePHP project with this structure:

myrootapp
|__ app
   |__webroot
      |__soap.php

I'm calling my webservice in this soap.php, but I am calling some cakephp controller inside of my webservices functions like this link.

But the App::import causes an error in my application because the App::import is not imported into soap.php.

How I can import and use the CakePHP function in my soap.php page inside the webroot folder? I want to use App::cakephpFunctions to import the controllers.

** UPDATE**

I'm calling App:import inside the soap.php in webroot. I wanna solve this and call my controllers in this file.

PHP Fatal error:  Class 'App' not found in 

Thanks.

Answer 1

In order to use stuff from the framework, you need to load/initialize it first. You can do that by including the CakePHP bootstrap file into your soap.php file:

require_once('/path/to/your/cakephp/lib/Cake/bootstrap.php');

That will initialize the framework, including the App class.