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> [Running a Zend Framework action from command line](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2325338/running-a-zend-framework-action-from-command-line) 
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I want to create a PHP application using Zend Framework (version 1.11). It's basically for carrying out some routine tasks on a mail server, the service will get ran via a cron job. 

However, because it will possibly be nice in the future to have some sort of HTML based monitoring system I want to have the the layout capabilities available. 

So really there's two questions:

1. How do I disable Zend Framework from rendering the view when I am running from command line?
2. And how would I generally go about also building in an interface should I visit a specific url?

Thanks in advance for your advice.