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Can we configure cron job's time interval through PHP script, so that the time interval should not be set manually, but through a PHP script, whether it takes time interval from Database or fixed (but from within the PHP code).
Thanks in advance
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Timing – set the weekday, months, days, hours and minutes. Execute – the cron job needs to be called in PHP to run – that's located at /usr/bin/php path. Script Path – the path of the file you want to run. Output – you are allowed to add the cron output to a file or discard it. /dev/null 2>&1 will discard.
Every minute: if you want to run a cronjob every minute then you would use the wild card symbol * . If however you wanted to run it every x minutes you would use */x for example every 5 minutes would be */5 or for every 15 minutes */15 . The next option is to specify the minutes separated by , for example 3,16,23,48 .
I think it is much better to let your application control the frequency of events instead of the cronjob. Let the cronjob run a certain action of your application every minute. The action then for example checks a database table named cronjobs and runs the jobs marked for running by either a frequency number or a timestamp.
If you do it like this, you can add new jobs programmatically from everywhere, e.g. via an cronjob interface. The solution is easier to maintain, to test and to document.
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