Question

I am trying to Add a CronTabs in a site{bidding site}, where the aspect to add a Crontabs is for the Autobidders.Please Someone guide me how can I add a Crontabs and how can I make it working,so that if any user adds up a auto bidder,it can place bid according to the server’s time…!!!
Thans in Advance..!!!

Answer 1

In CakePHP, you need to create a shell to do the task. You can read all about creating a task here:

http://book.cakephp.org/view/110/Creating-Shells-Tasks

Tasks run the same way “cake bake” runs. You call cake task-name.

Once you have the task setup, you can use the cake shell to run the task from the crontab as benlumley suggested.

To run a cake shell command from the crontab, you simply say…

* * * * * (cd /path/to/app/directory; sh /path/to/cake/console/cake TASKNAME) 1> /dev/null 2>&1

This should get you started.