How to bootstrap CiviCRM with admin permissions in a Wordpress environment?

Question

I'm using eval cv php:boot in a script. I need to be able to delete a contact in the script, including the skip_undelete flag, but this action is denied - get a "could not delete contact" error.

I learnt that in Drupal this happens when you're bootstrapped but not as the admin user, but I'm unfamiliar with what Wordpress's equivalent would be, and whether it's possible to do this using cv?

Thanks.

PS. I'm writing a phpunit test (not a unit test) for a wordpress integration plugin (not a CiviCRM extension) that makes various API calls. I am running this against a real world database, not a buildkit one, so it's not appropriate to use the extension-style phpunit tests which start by tearing out your data :-)

Answer 1

I recently pushed b3db22c002a5d16ae3715b97b58f3f64a1526a3a -- which adds the --user (-U) option and seems to work in WP/D7 (but hasn't been exhaustively tested). Try downloading the latest build of cv.

Answer 2

If wp-cli is an option, it takes a --user option, similarly to drush.

If that's not an option, looking at the wp-cli source code (here) suggests that wp_set_current_user() will do the trick.