Question

The way my site is setup, I need to manually visit two URLs to trigger the mail system. One URL compiles a list of emails, another sends them off.

I’d like to automate this using a cronjob, but here’s the problem. I am using the Kohana framework and I don’t think copy pasting the code within the controllers will work.

The easiest way to accomplish what I am doing is to have the two URLs visited every 5 minutes or so. Is it possible to “visit” (for a lack of better word) sites in PHP?

Answer 1

Yes, if you just use file_get_contents or access it by cURL, it would be considered “visited” as it will simply create a GET request.

file_get_contents($url1);
file_get_contents($url2);