Using CRON with CakePHP 3.x if you want to call a controller/action quickly

readme.md

CRON Dispatcher

• Create src/webroot/cron_dispatcher.php

• Now we can use a CLI to run our Crawler controller 'run' action :

php -q /some/absolute/path/myapp/webroot/cron_dispatcher.php /crawler/run

More info on CRON : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

cron_dispatcher.php

<?php

$_SERVER[ 'HTTP_HOST' ] = 'localhost'; // or something like yourdomain.tld
require dirname(__DIR__) . '/config/bootstrap.php';

use Cake\Network\Request;
use Cake\Network\Response;
use Cake\Routing\DispatcherFactory;

if(PHP_SAPI == "cli" && $argc == 2) {
	$dispatcher = DispatcherFactory::create();
	$dispatcher->dispatch(
	    new Request($argv[1]),
	    new Response()
	);
}
else {
	exit;
}

Thanks, this was very helpful. In my case I had to extend this code a little. Creating a new request object did not automatically parse the url ($argv[1]) and set the controller and action from it.

What I came up with is:

    $request = new Request($argv[1]);
    $request = $request->addParams(
        Router::parse(
            $request->url,
            ''
        )
    );
    $dispatcher->dispatch(
	    $request,
	    new Response()
	);

Hi guys

I am trying to set cron in cakephp 3 in cpanel. but its not working. can anyone help me please

Thanks

@sunnysood1may
We made this plugin to make scheduling/running cron job in CakePHP 3 easy.
Check it out at https://github.com/watchowl/cake-scheduler