diff --git a/run.d/cakephp b/run.d/cakephp
index 4764b71..7610474 100644
--- a/run.d/cakephp
+++ b/run.d/cakephp
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ require_once("toolkit.php");
 $cake_api = file_get_contents("https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/tags");
 if( preg_match("/\<span class=\"tag\-name\"\>([0-9\.]+)\<\/span\>/", $cake_api, $matches) ) {
   $cake_current = $matches[1];
-  verbose(Current CakePHP version: $cake_current", 1);
+  verbose("Current CakePHP version: $cake_current", 1);
 }else {
   die("Unable to determine current CakePHP version, exiting\n");
 }
diff --git a/run.d/toolkit.php b/run.d/toolkit.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..56e4353
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run.d/toolkit.php
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<?
+// Generic tasks to read shell/environment settings into PHP
+//
+
+// Environment CHK_HOSTS holds hosts to check, get them in an array
+//
+if( getenv('CHK_HOSTS') == null ) {
+  $hosts = null;
+}else {
+  $hosts = explode(' ', getenv('CHK_HOSTS'));
+  if (implode($hosts)=='') die("No hosts to check.\n");
+}
+
+// Verbosity settings
+//
+if( getenv('VERBOSE') == null ) {
+  $verbose = 0;
+} else {
+  $verbose = getenv('VERBOSE');
+}
+function verbose($msg, $loglevel=0) {
+  global $verbose;
+  if($loglevel <= $verbose) echo $msg."\n";
+}
+
+?>