Create cronjob with Zend Framework

Question

I am trying to write a cronjob controller, so I can call one website and have all modules cronjob.php executed. Now my problem is how do I do that?

Would curl be an

Answer 1

For Zend Framework I am currently using the code outlined bellow. The script only includes the portal file index.php, where all the paths, environment and other Zendy code is bootstrapped. By defining a constant in the cron script we cancel the final step , where the application is run.

This means the application is only setup, not even bootstrapped. At this point we start bootstraping the resources we need and that is that

//public/index.php

if(!defined('DONT_RUN_APP') || DONT_RUN_APP == false) {  
    $application->bootstrap()->run();
}

// application/../cron/cronjob.php

define("DONT_RUN_APP",true);
require(realpath('/srv/www/project/public/index.php'));
$application->bootstrap('config');
$application->bootstrap('db');

//cron code follows