Comments on: PHP manage multiple cronjobs with a single crontab entry

By: Franklin

Franklin — Sat, 18 May 2019 18:18:25 +0000

Thanks, perfect for a frontend cron schedular.

By: Boogiedoll

Boogiedoll — Sat, 13 May 2017 15:36:17 +0000

How should I put this cron in the cronjob.php file?
0 0 * * * /usr/bin/wget http://myawseomesite.com/backup_database.php >> /home/user/public_html/log.txt 2>&1

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 03:51:00 +0000

Yeah, Great!!
Very love your alternative solution. This is what i want.

Thanks.

By: Roland M Souza

Roland M Souza — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:55:00 +0000

You saved my day! Thaaaaaaaaaanks!

By: Aldis

Aldis — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:28:38 +0000

Great!
My hoster allows only one cron job so all tasks are executed in one php and all at once.
This info will help me a lot! Thanks! :)

By: Binary Tides

Binary Tides — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:05:29 +0000

In reply to ikke.

“And where do you store the command to be executed, huh?
That needs another function because this only works with bogus commands like “database_backup”.”

— Every function/command needs to be stored somewhere in the application code.

“You still need to define “database_backup” somewhere else.”

— Ofcourse , any tasks needs a definition.

”
And what about a complicated command like this one:
/usr/bin/find /home/user/Procmail -name pmlog* -type f -mtime +60 -exec /bin/rm -f {} ;

That´s not going to work ever.
”

— Not going to work means ? The whole purpose is to manage task scheduling , not what the tasks do or how they do.
For a command of that kind , you can put it in a php function and call system , exec , passthru or shell_exec.

“To be short this is another example of doing things complicated while it can be done simple.”

— Its just about managing the task automation. How the task is done is upto the user or the application.

By: ikke

ikke — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:22:50 +0000

Yeah, right…
And where do you store the command to be executed, huh?
That needs another function because this only works with bogus commands like “database_backup”.
You still need to define “database_backup” somewhere else.

And what about a complicated command like this one:
/usr/bin/find /home/user/Procmail -name pmlog* -type f -mtime +60 -exec /bin/rm -f {} ;

That´s not going to work ever.

To be short this is another example of doing things complicated while it can be done simple.