Special Topics - Running Cron Jobs
- General Info
- Setting up a cron job in Site5.com
- Setting up a cron job in cPanel
- Two options to perform cron jobs
General Info ¶
Some web applications may require that certain actions are automatically executed by predefined schedule. In UNIX-like operating systems such actions are managed by thecron
daemon.
Periodically executed actions are described by means of special instructions added to crontab configuration files. Each instruction must contain a specially formatted description and the command to be executed as shown below:
* * * * * executed command - - - - - | | | | | | | | | ----- Day of the week (0 - 7) (Important: Sunday = 0 or 7) | | | ------- Month (1 - 12) | | --------- Date (1 - 31) | ----------- Hour (0 - 23) ------------- Minute (0 - 59)
Examples of cron job descriptions:
# Executed every 5 minutes */5 * * * * $HOME/bin/every5min # Executed every day at 06:30 30 6 * * * $HOME/bin/daily # Executed each hour on working days 0 * * * 1-5 $HOME/bin/hourly # Executed at 01:00 from Saturday to Sunday 0 1 * * 7 $HOME/bin/weekly # Executed at 01:00 every 1st and 15th day of each month 0 1 1,15 * * $HOME/bin/montly
To make sure your application performs such operations you have to create firstly a
CronController
(you nay give any name you want), where you write executable code.
Then you have to set up a cron job in your Hosting Control Panel.
Setting up a cron job in Site5.com Control Panel ¶

Setting up a cron job in cPanel ¶

Two options to perform cron jobs ¶
You may define batch or non-batch options to perform the cron jobs. The recommended way to run cron code is to set up a cronjob if you run a Unix/Linux server. If for any reason you can't run a cronjob on your server, you can choose the non-batch option to have cron code is running by the script itself: in this case cron code will be run each time someone access your home page. Such option is called "pseudo" or "non-batch".Cron code may be released in
protected/models/Cron.php
class or in each module in
protected/module-name/models/ModuleName.php
class with method cron()
.
Access rules to Cron controller may be defined in method
CronControler::_accessRules()
of this class.