How to set up cronjobs in cakephp?

Question

How do I use cronjobs in Cakephp, need to call a controller action on the linux server, is the script path?

I’ve tried it here and it didn’t work!

Answer 1

Ideally you do this in your layer of Model, I think you should rethink this option of calling directly from Controller.

For this, you must first create a task shell, which will be executed on your server’s task scheduler. Let’s assume that you want to clear a table photos every half-hour, then you create a task from a file app/Console/Command/PhotoShell.php sort of like this:

class PhotoShell extends AppShell {
    public function limpar() {
        ClassRegistry::init('Photo')->limpar();
    }
}

And your model Photo would have the method limpar() thus implemented:

public function limpar() {
    $this->query('TRUNCATE ' . $this->useTable);
}

Ready, done this, just include in your cronjobs:

0,30 * * * * /app/Console/cake Photo limpar

Remembering that the file cake must have the appropriate execution permissions.

Answer 2

From the cakebook itself

  */5  *    *    *    *  cd /full/path/to/app && Console/cake myshell myparam
  # *    *    *    *    *  command to execute
  # │    │    │    │    │
  # │    │    │    │    │
  # │    │    │    │    \───── day of week (0 - 6) (0 to 6 are Sunday to Saturday,
    |    |    |    |           or use names)
  # │    │    │    \────────── month (1 - 12)
  # │    │    \─────────────── day of month (1 - 31)
  # │    \──────────────────── hour (0 - 23)
  # \───────────────────────── min (0 - 59)

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/console-and-shells/cron-jobs.html