How to call a controller/action in crontab?
If you want to call a controller/action in crontab, you simply must:
1. create a copy of index.php in your app’s webroot directory,
and rename it to cron_dispatcher.php or to any filename.
2. after this, somewhere in line 78 of index.php of your app’s webroot directory,
require CORE_PATH . ‘cake’ . DS . ‘bootstrap.php’;
put code:
if($argc == 2) {
$Dispatcher= new Dispatcher();
$Dispatcher->dispatch($argv[1]);
}
$Dispatcher= new Dispatcher();
$Dispatcher->dispatch($argv[1]);
}
this code will get argument from php commandline having index = 1.
so, in your crontab,
* * * * php -q /var/www/html/cake/webroot/cron_dispatcher.php Controller/action
Robby said,
February 11, 2008 @ 11:37 pm
Could you also use cake console command and put a wrapper in vendors/shells directory to acheive the same effect?
phpcurious said,
February 12, 2008 @ 3:03 am
@Robby,
thank you very much for visiting my site.
I haven’t tried that yet in cakephp 1.2, since I’m mostly a cakephp 1.1 user. I think you are referring to newer features of cakephp in 1.2 version. I believe it is possible, basing from daniel hoffster’s blog post , “Writing a custom CakePHP console script”.
I don’t want to elaborate here how he discussed to create a sample console script, but
you can just visit his site at this address:
http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2007/05/07/writing-a-custom-cakephp-console-script/
brainv said,
February 25, 2008 @ 4:37 am
why not use lynx or wget command to call your script?
phpcurious said,
February 25, 2008 @ 9:08 am
@brainv
thanks for visiting my site.
yes you can also do that. though, IMHO,
that’s not a good practice in cakephp.
samoli said,
February 25, 2008 @ 7:06 pm
@brainv
Calling a script with lynx is OK for small tasks, but if you have a job which runs for many hours, the web server will potentially end the process. It’s usually much better to call it directly.
phpcurious said,
February 26, 2008 @ 10:58 am
@samoli
thanks for visiting my site.
nicely explained.