Question

I have a cron job set up to run testemail.php. This works fine, every minute. (Ubuntu localhost, php5)

* * * * * /usr/bin/php5 -q /var/www/cocoraco/portfolio/html/testemail.php > /dev/null 2>&1 

I have a second file findandemail.php which runs some Database tasks and sends email. The email function is defined in (and I did include it as follows) "../scripts/functions.php". It does not work, while the testemail.php still works.

Cron in this case looks like

* * * * * /usr/bin/php5 -q /var/www/cocoraco/portfolio/html/testemail.php > /dev/null 2>&1
* * * * * /usr/bin/php5 -q /var/www/cocoraco/portfolio/find/findandemail.php > /dev/null 2>&1

As a test, If i copy code from testemail.php to findandemail.php, that section runs fine sending a dummy email. I am new to cron.

Can anyone shed some light? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

When executing code like this your code runs at /usr/bin so if you include ../scripts/functions.php your code looks for the file at /usr/scripts/functions.php

I like to use the __FILE__ magic constant to include files very bulletproof:

include(dirname(__FILE__).'/../scripts/functions.php');

This should do the trick for you.