Question

Hi I made a Joomla Plug-in which gets some external content and saves it in an HTML file. Wanted to know is it possible to automatically execute this plug-in at regular intervals.

If yes what will be the process?

Or the other way is it possible to place this script in some file and automatically execute it on a regular interval.

Kindly help.

Answer 1

yes, you’ll want to use cron to do a repeated scheduled task such as this. see this primer on cron
as an example, here’ is my cron file for a script I run every 30 minutes to update Google safesites info…

# m h  dom mon dow   command
30 * * * * /usr/bin/php /OBFUSCATED/PATH/TO/MY/SCRIPT/listupdater.php

to set this up you need SSh access to your server and from the command line you’ll type

crontab -e

you may want to read up on how to edit in a vi-style editor…