We now are having a "scripts" folder

scripts/daemon.php

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+<?php
+/**
+ * @file util/daemon.php
+ * @brief Run the poller from a daemon.
+ *
+ * This script was taken from http://php.net/manual/en/function.pcntl-fork.php
+ */
+function shutdown() {
+	posix_kill(posix_getpid(), SIGHUP);
+}
+
+if (in_array("start", $_SERVER["argv"])) {
+	$mode = "start";
+}
+
+if (in_array("stop", $_SERVER["argv"])) {
+	$mode = "stop";
+}
+
+if (in_array("status", $_SERVER["argv"])) {
+	$mode = "status";
+}
+
+if (!isset($mode)) {
+	die("Please use either 'start', 'stop' or 'status'.\n");
+}
+
+@include(".htconfig.php");
+
+if (!isset($pidfile)) {
+	die('Please specify a pid file in the variable $pidfile in the .htconfig.php. For example:'."\n".
+		'$pidfile = "/path/to/daemon.pid";'."\n");
+}
+
+if (in_array($mode, array("stop", "status"))) {
+	$pid = @file_get_contents($pidfile);
+
+	if (!$pid) {
+		die("Pidfile wasn't found. Is the daemon running?\n");
+	}
+}
+
+if ($mode == "status") {
+	if (posix_kill($pid, 0)) {
+		die("Daemon process $pid is running.\n");
+	}
+
+	unlink($pidfile);
+
+	die("Daemon process $pid isn't running.\n");
+}
+
+if ($mode == "stop") {
+	posix_kill($pid, SIGTERM);
+
+	unlink($pidfile);
+
+	die("Worker daemon process $pid was killed.\n");
+}
+
+echo "Starting worker daemon.\n";
+
+if (isset($a->config['php_path'])) {
+	$php = $a->config['php_path'];
+} else {
+	$php = "php";
+}
+
+// Switch over to daemon mode.
+if ($pid = pcntl_fork())
+	return;     // Parent
+
+fclose(STDIN);  // Close all of the standard
+fclose(STDOUT); // file descriptors as we
+fclose(STDERR); // are running as a daemon.
+
+register_shutdown_function('shutdown');
+
+if (posix_setsid() < 0)
+	return;
+
+if ($pid = pcntl_fork())
+	return;     // Parent
+
+$pid = getmypid();
+file_put_contents($pidfile, $pid);
+
+// Now running as a daemon.
+while (true) {
+	// Just to be sure that this script really runs endlessly
+	set_time_limit(0);
+
+	// Call the poller
+	$cmdline = $php.' include/poller.php';
+
+	exec($cmdline);
+
+	// Now sleep for 5 minutes
+	sleep(300);
+}

scripts/dbstructure.php

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+<?php
+/**
+ * @file scripts/dbstructure.php
+ * @brief Does database updates from the command line
+ */
+
+require_once 'include/dbstructure.php';
+
+use Friendica\App;
+
+$a = new App(dirname(__DIR__));
+
+@include ".htconfig.php";
+require_once "include/dba.php";
+dba::connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_data);
+unset($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_data);
+
+if ($_SERVER["argc"] == 2) {
+	switch ($_SERVER["argv"][1]) {
+		case "dryrun":
+			update_structure(true, false);
+			return;
+		case "update":
+			update_structure(true, true);
+
+			$build = Config::get('system','build');
+			if (!x($build)) {
+				Config::set('system', 'build', DB_UPDATE_VERSION);
+				$build = DB_UPDATE_VERSION;
+			}
+
+			$stored = intval($build);
+			$current = intval(DB_UPDATE_VERSION);
+
+			// run any left update_nnnn functions in update.php
+			for ($x = $stored; $x < $current; $x ++) {
+				$r = run_update_function($x);
+				if (!$r) {
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+
+			Config::set('system','build',DB_UPDATE_VERSION);
+			return;
+		case "dumpsql":
+			print_structure(db_definition());
+			return;
+		case "toinnodb":
+			convert_to_innodb();
+			return;
+	}
+}
+
+// print help
+echo $_SERVER["argv"][0]." <command>\n";
+echo "\n";
+echo "Commands:\n";
+echo "dryrun		show database update schema queries without running them\n";
+echo "update		update database schema\n";
+echo "dumpsql		dump database schema\n";
+echo "toinnodb	convert all tables from MyISAM to InnoDB\n";
+killme();
+

scripts/worker.php

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+<?php
+use Friendica\App;
+use Friendica\Core\Worker;
+use Friendica\Core\Config;
+
+// Ensure that poller.php is executed from the base path of the installation
+if (!file_exists("boot.php") && (sizeof($_SERVER["argv"]) != 0)) {
+	$directory = dirname($_SERVER["argv"][0]);
+
+	if (substr($directory, 0, 1) != "/") {
+		$directory = $_SERVER["PWD"]."/".$directory;
+	}
+	$directory = realpath($directory."/..");
+
+	chdir($directory);
+}
+
+require_once "boot.php";
+require_once "include/dba.php";
+
+$a = new App(dirname(__DIR__));
+
+require_once ".htconfig.php";
+dba::connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_data);
+unset($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_data);
+
+Config::load();
+
+// Check the database structure and possibly fixes it
+check_db(true);
+
+// Quit when in maintenance
+if (Config::get('system', 'maintenance', true)) {
+	return;
+}
+
+$a->set_baseurl(Config::get('system', 'url'));
+
+load_hooks();
+
+$run_cron = (($_SERVER["argc"] <= 1) || ($_SERVER["argv"][1] != "no_cron"));
+Worker::processQueue($run_cron);
+
+Worker::unclaimProcess();
+
+$a->end_process();
+
+killme();
+