How to setup cronjobs in cake php?

Question

How can I use cron job in cakephp to call an action of a controller on Ubuntu, I am trying to do it through crontab but it is not working?

Answer 1

Use a shell

The 'Cake Way' of using a CakePHP application in cron jobs would be creating shell and then calling it as a cron job.

i.e. Create a shell to do the task, and then add it to crontab (crontab -e on linux machine):

0 * * * *       cd /path/to/app/ && Console/cake your_shell_name params

Creating shells and using them with cron is covered in the documentation.