My website hosting server is hostmonster.com.
My application uses codeigniter framework.
I have a code which sends emails to my users and I want to make it automatic.
I have used the cpanel of the hosting service and I tried to give the command as
php -q www.mysite.com/admin admin sendDailyEmail
my controller is admin and the method is sendDailyEmail and the controller is present inside the application/controllers/admin folder.
I have also set a reminder email to me whenever the cronjob is run.
The email subject reads
Cron php -q /home1/username/public_html/admin admin sendDailyEmail
and the body says
No input file specified
Where do I go wrong.
I have never run cronjobs and this is my first time.
I am no good in giving command line instuctions too.
My admin sendDailyEmail code is as follows
function sendDailyEmail() {
$data = $this->admin_model->getDailyData();
foreach ($data as $u) {
if($u->Daily){
//if(!$u->Amount){
if ($u->Email=='myemail#gmail.com') {
$user['user_data']['FirstName'] = $u->FirstName;
$user['user_data']['LastName'] = $u->LastName;
$user['user_data']['Id']=$u->Id;
$this->email->clear();
$this->email->to($u->Email);
$this->email->from('alerts#mysite.com', 'MySite');
$this->email->subject("My Subject");
$msg = $this->load->view('emails/daily_view', $user, true);
$this->email->message($msg);
if ($this->email->send())
$data['message'] = "Daily Emails has been sent successfully";
else
$data['message'] = "Daily Emails Sending Failed";
}
}
}
$data['main_content']['next_view'] = 'admin_home_view';
$this->load->view('includes/admin_template', $data);
}
You can use wget and set the time for whatever you like:
wget http://www.mysite.com/admin/sendDailyEmail
You can also use curl:
curl --silent http://www.mysite.com/admin/sendDailyEmail
For CodeIgniter 2.2.0
You can try this:
php-cli /home/username/public_html/index.php controller method
or at your case
php-cli /home/username/public_html/index.php admin sendDailyEmail
It works fine with me..
Cheers!
Codeigniter sets up command line differently for running crons, etc.
Read:
http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/cli.html
So you should run:
php index.php admin admin sendDailyEmail
(that may need adjusted; based on your code above)
Have a look at an article I just wrote that goes a little deeper into it all:
http://codebyjeff.com/blog/2013/10/setting-environment-vars-for-codeigniter-commandline
i have facing same issue while, but following work for me
wget http://www.yoursite.com/controller/function
Related
My website is live and the order confirmation emails are neither being sent to the customer nor the admin. I am using Magento 1.9.3.2.
Please check whether Cron jobs are working or not, you can check easily by installing AOE SCHEDULER extension, make sure you have proper setting in System > Configuration > Advanced > System > Cron Also check whether you entered sender email in System > configuration> Sales> Sales email > Order emails.
Just to add to the above, out of the box the cronjobs are pre-configured in Magento, but you need to setup the actual job on your servers cron tab.
In SSH open the crontab;
crontab -e
Add this;
### MAGENTO CRON ###
*/1 * * * * cd /path/to/magento/ && sh cron.sh
Replaced /path/to/magento with the actual path your installation.
Magento allow 2 way to send email like below :
1) Using cron
2) Avoid cron
If you want without cron then use below change:
Open your order.php file at - app/code/core/Mage/Sales/Model/Order.php
And change :
//$mailer->setQueue($emailQueue)->send(); **// Comment this code.**
to:
$mailer-> send();
Note : Above change is not standard way in magneto so please implement file override way.
Go to : app/design/frontend/base/default/template/checkout/success.phtml:
Add following code on the top of the file code :
$order = Mage::getModel('sales/order');
$incrementId = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getLastRealOrderId();
$order->loadByIncrementId($incrementId);
try
{
$order->sendNewOrderEmail();
}
catch (Exception $ex)
{
echo "Email Not Sent...";
}
$customer = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer();
$email = $customer->getEmail();
it's weird, when developing localhost, everything works fine, the default page shows.
after upload to server, it just show blank page !
it's driving me crazy !
echo 'outside route';
Route::get('/', function()
{
echo 'inside route';
return View::make('hello');
});
both echo works, but View::make('hello') just don't work, views/hello.php is the default file.
You might have to fix your permissions on the remote server, as it might be a cache issue.
1) Run recursive chmod on you storage path (*assuming you already have proper file ownage)
cd /path/to/laravel
chmod -R 755 app/storage
2) Clear cache with Artisan
php artisan cache:clear
3) Refresh page, should work now.
*if you are running the http server as different user (for example you're on Ubuntu and Apache runs as user www-data), you might want to set file ownage for Laravel app files as well
chown -R www-data .
EDIT:
Just a remark about your code example - remember that if you want to use Blade templating engine you have to name your files accordingly. If you want to have a blade template called 'something', you will place your code in app/views/something.blade.php and than reffer to it for example View::make('something').
I need to run a cron job on a file using CodeIgniter but CodeIgniter won't let me run a file directly. i.e.
I can run the controller in the browser with:
api.example.com/index.php/cron
My hosting only lets me run PHP files and I can't do it via the command line because it won't let me run wget or curl.
How can I make CodeIgniter run a file like below:
api.example.com/index.php/application/controller/cron.php
I can call that file with my hosting.
Updated
Thought i would just update none of the options worked for me i ended up changing hosting and doing the following.
http://devsforrest.com/116/setup-a-cronjob-to-run-every-5-minute-on-media-temple
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, or if I'm answering you wrong, but the way I run my CRON jobs with CodeIgniter is simply doing this as the cron:
php /path/to/index.php controller function
Then in the controller I have this at the top of it
if( PHP_SAPI != 'cli') exit('My Custom Error Message');
Uset wget command along with your url to run cron in codeigniter file in your case it should be:
wget api.example.com/index.php/controller/function
and be careful do not use path of file use the url which invokes your function.
class Cron extends CI_Controller {
function index($dummy) {
// Crony command
}
}
Line: api.example.com/index.php/cron/index/dummy.php
Basicly given example uses the 3rd uri segment to pass a value ending on .php that you don't use.
Or else you can use good ol' Routing
Use .htaccess to append .php to the requested URL, i did not test the code below, but i hope it helps.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [R=301]
Use CURL and call your cronjob by URL. If CURL is enabled in your hosting that will be a good choice.
Create a PHP file name it cronjob.php in the root folder of your website and add the following script in a file.
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.mysite.com/index.php/controller/method");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$server_output = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
?>
Now in the cronjob call the php file cronjob.php and it should work.
simply
/usr/local/bin/php /home/cpanel_username/public_html/sub_folder/index.php param1 param2 optional_param3 optional_param3
Here
cpanel_username - username of your domain cpanel,
sub_folder(optional) - if your web application is any folder
Param(parameters) - refers to controller and their methods(functions)
Codeigniter API Cronjob for godaddy hosting
CodeIgniter cron job API based daily 10 o clock
0 10 * * * /usr/local/bin/php public_html/folder_name/index.php controller_name funcation_name
For Me Working Fine
I am trying to learn how to do my first cron job using CodeIgniter. In the past, it seemed the only way to do this with CI was to use the wget command instead of php.
The CodeIgniter User Guide, however, says that now you can do this from the command line, for example by running:
$ cd /path/to/project;
$ php index.php controller method
This works great using Terminal on my local setup. But when I use a similar command in the cron section of cPanel on my shared hosting, the task just returns the contents of index.php.
I'm not entirely sure what cPanel does with this command, so unsure as to whether it's using the command line at all.
Could someone explain how I might be able to set up a cron job on shared hosting using CodeIgniter please?
Here is the example code from the CodeIgniter user guide:
tools.php
public function message($to = 'World')
{
echo "Hello {$to}!".PHP_EOL;
}
}
?>
It's going to depend on your host. Cron jobs could really screw stuff up if you're not careful, so a lot of shared hosts don't allow it. You probably need to be on some virtual container (like a VPS, virtuozo, etc.) to do this. This isn't a CodeIgniter issue, but a hosting provider issue. Call them first.
We worked around this exact issue as follows:
Set up a normal php file that is scheduled by cron. Nothing to do with codeigniter yet
Inside it, you can make an fsocket or curl request to perform your regular CodeIgniter call as you do from the web.
Here's an example (say, cron.php)
#!/usr/local/bin/php.cli
<?php
DEFINE('CRON_CALL_URL','https://my_server/'); //
DEFINE('CRON_HTTPS_PORT', 443); // port to use during fsocket connetion
DEFINE('CRON_SSL_PREFIX', 'ssl://'); // prefix to be used on the url when using ssl
$current_time = now();
$md5_hash = md5('somevalue'.$current_time);
$url = CRON_CALL_URL.'MYCTRL/MYMETHOD';
$parts=parse_url($url);
//
$parts['query']='md5_hash='.$md5_hash.'&time='.$current_time;
$fp = fsockopen(CRON_SSL_PREFIX.$parts['host'],
isset($parts['port'])?$parts['port']:CRON_HTTPS_PORT,
$errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
} else {
if (!array_key_exists('query', $parts)) $parts['query'] = null;
$out = "POST ".$parts['path']." HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$out.= "Host: ".$parts['host']."\r\n";
$out.= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$out.= "Content-Length: ".strlen($parts['query'])."\r\n";
$out.= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
if (isset($parts['query'])) $out.= $parts['query'];
fwrite($fp, $out);
fclose($fp);
}
}
?>
NOTE: Make sure that in your MYCTRL/MYMETHOD function you have
ignore_user_abort(true);
that way when you fsocket connection is closed, your script will still run to the end.
We actually have a bunch of these fsockets for various reasons. If you need to make sure that the call to that controller/method came from the cron script, you need to pass some additional hash values so that only cron and the script know it. Once the script is called it has access to any codeigniter functions. Works like a charm.
I've set up 100s of CI cronjob on shared hosting like this: create a short php script which calls the CI controller as if it was a webbrowser.
So, script.php contains this:
script #! /usr/local/bin/php -f /home/example/public_html/script.php
<?php
get_get_contents('http:example.com/cronjob/');
?>
Then set your cronjob in cPanel to call script.php
When it runs Script.php will call the Codeigniter Cronjob controller. There you have the entire CI framework at your disposal.
If you are going to call it like a web browser, why not replace the cronjob
command with:
wget http://example.com/cronjob/
instead of creating something new or simply
curl --suppress http://example.com/cronjob/`
When date.timezone in php.ini is commented out, it gives me:
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: main(): It is not safe to
rely on the system's timezone
settings. You are required to use
the date.timezone setting or the
date_default_timezone_set() function.
In case you used any of those methods
and you are still getting this
warning, you most likely misspelled
the timezone identifier. We selected
'America/Los_Angeles' for '-8.0/no
DST' instead
Filename: controllers/helloworld.php
Line Number: 2
When I have
date.timezone = "America/Los_Angeles"
It gives me this:
Server error The website encountered
an error while retrieving
http://localhost/ci/index.php/helloworld.
It may be down for maintenance or
configured incorrectly. Here are some
suggestions: Reload this web page
later. HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server
Error): An unexpected condition was
encountered while the server was
attempting to fulfill the request.
I am using php 5.3, CodeIgniter 2.0.0, and Apache 2.2.
Update 1:
I tried loading a test.php without CodeIgniter, where the first 3 lines of test.php is
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
echo date("l j \of F Y h:i:s A");
And it works fine, different timezones also works fine too.
So I suspect the problem is from CodeIgniter.
If you Googled "CodeIgniter PHP 5.3" you would have found this article pretty quickly :)
http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2009/12/CodeIgniter-on-PHP-5.3
To fix this, you only need to edit the main index.php for your CodeIgniter application:
if( ! ini_get('date.timezone') )
{
date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
}
This modification is something you will probably need to make for any CodeIgniter application running on PHP 5.3 and can easily be modified to your local timezone. There is a full list of supported timezones in the PHP manual here.
Yes, if you cannot directly edit the php.ini file, placing...
ini_set('date.timezone', 'America/New_York');
...as the first line in CI's index.php works fine.
Reference: PHP's Available Timezones
write in your index.php codeigniter...
/*
|---------------------------------------------------------------
| TimeZone
|---------------------------------------------------------------
|
| default Time Zone
|
*/
if ( function_exists( 'date_default_timezone_set' ) )
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Jakarta');
Running well in my codeigniter
this is the simple way to do it
$timezone = "Asia/Calcutta";
if(function_exists('date_default_timezone_set')) date_default_timezone_set($timezone);
//echo date('d-m-Y H:i:s');
$localtime=date('H:i:s');
$sql="INSERT INTO hits (ip,edate,curtime,page_name) VALUES ('$ip', CURDATE(),'$localtime','$filename') ";
date.timezone is intended to go in your php.ini or .htaccess file.
you could do an ini_set('date.timezone', 'America/Los_Angeles'); in the first line of your script and get the desired results.
edit your config.php file
from
$config['time_reference'] = 'local';
to
$config['time_reference'] = 'UTC';