Question

I am writing a component for Joomla and there is a specific task that requires an update to some stats every so often. I would like to setup a cron job to do this. The only problem is that requires the user to go and setup the cron to run the php update stats script.

On installation of the component how can I automatically setup a cron job for the user? Is this possible?

I’ve seen this implemented in the Akeeba backup pro component for Joomla, so I was hoping that I would be able to do the same thing.

Thanks

Answer 1

In theory you can create a crontab file and call it from PHP

<?php
exec("crontab $path_to_cron_file");

in practice it depends on wether the server (if you’re on a shared hosting) allows you to do that.