Set up cron jobs or crontab in Cakephp

Before stating to set up Cron jobs in your server you have understand and know what the Cron jobs is?

Cron is a Linux utility which schedules a command or script on your server to run automatically at a specified time and date. A cron job is the scheduled task itself. Cron jobs can be very useful to automate repetitive tasks.

Cron syntax

  */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)

To understand more please follow this link console-and-shells

1 - Create model News.php

App::uses('AppModel', 'Model');
class News extends AppModel
{
    public function sendNews()
    {
 $this->updateAll(array('is_disabled' => 1), array('delivery_time' => date('H:i').':00'));
    }
}

2- Create NewsSell in Cosole.

class NewsSell extends AppShell
{
   public function main()
   {
    App::import('Model', 'News');
    $News  = new News();
    $News->sendNews();
   }
}

3- Write command in crontab

-> type "crontab -e" in your terminal
->  set cron path "*/1 * * * * /var/www/vhosts/yourwebroot/html/app/Console/cake News"
-> save

Finally, I hope that this article will help you to get reach at the point.

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