diff --git a/phpBB/console.php b/phpBB/console.php
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+++ b/phpBB/console.php
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+<?php
+/**
+*
+* @package phpBB3
+* @copyright (c) 2013 phpBB Group
+* @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php GNU General Public License v2
+*
+*/
+
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Application;
+
+if (php_sapi_name() != 'cli')
+{
+	echo 'This program must be run from the command line.' . PHP_EOL;
+	exit(1);
+}
+
+define('IN_PHPBB', true);
+$phpbb_root_path = __DIR__ . '/';
+$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
+require($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/startup.' . $phpEx);
+require($phpbb_root_path . 'config.' . $phpEx);
+require($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/constants.' . $phpEx);
+require($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions.' . $phpEx);
+require($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_container.' . $phpEx);
+require($phpbb_root_path . 'phpbb/class_loader.' . $phpEx);
+
+$phpbb_class_loader = new \phpbb\class_loader('phpbb\\', "{$phpbb_root_path}phpbb/", $phpEx);
+$phpbb_class_loader->register();
+
+$application = new Application('phpBB Console', PHPBB_VERSION);
+$application->addCommands(array(
+));
+$application->run();