Cron jobs in codeigniter

Question

I am trying to do a cron job with a site built in CodeIgniter - I've got access to the CPanel cron feature can anyone suggest the best way to setup a cron job using CPanel?

I am using CodIgniter so cannot be sure how to call a controller within a cron job?

E.g http://admin.com/sites/publish/

How would I access this publish function within the sites controllers using a cron job?

Answer 1

Best way is to call from the command line in the cron job...

php /path/to/index.php controller >> /dev/null

You can run controllers via the command line in CI, see here.