How to set up a cron job with codeigniter
codeigniter, cron-task, php
Solution
To use CodeIgniter via the commmand line, you need to call the `index.php` file and pass in the controller and method as arguments, plus any other arguments. So at the minimum the cron job call would be:
~/public_html/sitefolder/index.php controller method
Or using the path to your application index file. But, you also need to use PHP compiled for the command line, not just PHP for CGI-FCGI. So your call might be something like:
/ramdisk/bin/php5-cli ~/public_html/sitefolder/index.php controller method
Depending on where your PHP CLI is located.
Problem
I am trying to set up a cron job using COdeigniter but I cannot figure out how to get it to work. I have a file called email_check.php in my controllers folder, and I have added a .cron file to the servers cron folder, which contains the following email_check.cron ``` */1 * * * * php /var/www/html/application/controllers/email_check ``` email_check.php ``` class Email_check extends CI_Controller { function __construct() { parent::__construct(); $this->index(); } function index() { $this->load->model('admin/info_model'); $this->info_model->addTestData(); } } ``` The addTestData adds a new row into a database table. I would like this to run every minute, however it isn't working at all and I have no idea why. Maybe it may be the paths that are wrong. Do I need to point the php part to the php.exe in the server. If anyone could help or point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated!