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Following the Footsteps of Heros, Never Lead to the Straight and Grey Roads. (Oh, Sleeper)

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CakePHP and CronTab in Plesk

My latest little project has needed some automation to take it beyond me visiting a link everyday. I wanted to have a script that I had built in CakePHP just run at intervals, so that I wouldn’t have to manually run it. I was pointed in the direction of Cron a “… a time-based scheduling service in Unix-like computer operating systems” (link). Setting it up to run with CakePHP was rather simple, so lets see how. Read the rest of this entry »