SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory - PHP Daemon - php

Question

I made a PHP daemon launcher (I execute an independent [which is an argument passed to the daemon] script through exec()) and the script that this PHP daemon runs uses a PDO wrapper that I made as well.
The thing is, when I run the script through the PHP daemon ($ php), my PDO wrapper can't connect and throws SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory.
The daemon_script.php includes #!/usr/bin/php before the <?php opening tag.
Now, I've been searching here since yesterday and found a couple of approaches but none is my specific case and can't manage to make it work, so I thought you'd have an idea on what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks in advance.
Using:
PHP 7.0.21 (although intended to implement it with PHP 5)
MYSQL Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.6.34, for osx10.12 (x86_64)
Daemon's start() method:
/**
* Starts the script.
* Also receives a script and sets it, then it runs it.
*
* #param string $script Optional script to start.
* #throws Exception Could not init.
* #throws Exception Could not save pid.
* #return boolean
*/
public function start($script = '')
{
if ($script)
{
$this->setScript($script);
}
$initialized = false;
$daemon_command = 'php '.$this->script.' > script.log 2>&1 & echo $! &';
try
{
$daemon_pid = exec($daemon_command, $output);
if (!$daemon_pid)
{
throw new Exception('Could not initialize. Invalid script: '.$this->script);
}
if (!file_put_contents($this->pid, $daemon_pid))
{
exec('kill '.$daemon_pid);
throw new Exception('Could not save process id "'.$daemon_pid.'"… killing it.');
}
usleep(50000);
if (!($initialized = $this->checkPID($daemon_pid)))
{
file_put_contents($this->pid, null);
throw new Exception('Script died unexpectedly!');
}
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
$this->errors = array(
'code' => $e->getCode(),
'message' => $e->getMessage()
) + $this->_errors;
}
return $initialized;
}

Answer 1

You need to set the full path to PHP in your command in order for exec() to properly find it. Since php is located in /opt/local/bin/php, just add it like this:
$daemon_command = '/opt/local/bin/php '.$this->script.' > script.log 2>&1 & echo $! &';
As a note, cron often works the same way, because it doesn't access the same PATH variables that a command-line user does.