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

Since we dont need the View layer of MVC, i will also suggest to use Cake shell instead of writing it in normal controllers. This will also reduce the memory load of various callback functions of controllers like beforeFilter, beforeRender et al.

Then make an entry in **nix cron tab for crons written in your CakeShells.