Comments on: CakePHP and CronTab in Plesk

By: Stefan Jansen

Stefan Jansen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:34:21 +0000

Thanks for your article, it realy helps!

Just a tip for all you devvers:

Found a litte php script in the console folder called “cake.php”.

You can use this to access the console without a CLI version of PHP.

By: James

James — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:36:13 +0000

Yeah, I ran into the same issues playing with the Shell. Basically it comes down to resorting to debug() to sort out these issues.

So, I would guess your first friend would be $this->out(); – Just place some variables in there and you shall see it in the log. With Plesk, you could send an email on the completion of every CRON, I found that time-consuming (waiting for the CRON to run) but rather effective.

I also setup the method first in a controller, so I just had to massage off the little issues without the wait.

Let me know how to go.

By: Paul Gardner

Paul Gardner — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:24:43 +0000

I came across your blog entry on this topic as I am too in the process of setting up a cronjob to execute a cake shell I had created using DirectAdmin and wanted to confirm I was doing it right.

My shell works fine from the command line adding a record into a table with no problems. However, when cron runs the shell, and I can see form my cron log on the server that the job is running, nothing happens .. any idea where I can find out more information on what is happening when the cronjob runs?

By: James

James — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:53:06 +0000

There was also this link as another way run the cron with CakePHP : http://www.usefulzero.com/2007/11/12/cron-job-in-cakephp-12/ : for informational sake.

There is many ways to accomplish one task.