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)
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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.
Problem with cron jobs cakephp.
