There has been quite a few threads about the best way to run cron jobs
when using CakePHP. I had to do this for my own application and I am
happy with the result so I want to share it with everyone. I can't take
all the credit for this as it's based on Jason Lee's post in the
thread:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/ff3ad3c9e1e40aab/
It involves hacking the dispatcher so you can call controller actions
via the command line. What you do is make a copy of index.php in
/app/webroot/, scroll to the bottom and when you come to the line -
require CORE_PATH.'cake'.DS.'bootstrap.php'; - replaces everything
below it with the following code:-
// Dispatch the controller action given to it
// eg c:\php4\cli\php cron_dispatcher.php /mailouts/send
if($argc == 2) {
$Dispatcher= new Dispatcher();
$Dispatcher->dispatch($argv[1]);
}
What this means is you can call controller actions from the command
line, so for example to call the send action in your mailouts
controller you just create a cron job like this:
php cron_dispatcher.php /mailouts/send
Hope people find this useful.
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