Call a Kohana helper from cron (or any URL)

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I need to call a Kohana helper (or any php MVC framework) from a Cron job.
How can I do this?
The server is Linux, so, I can only think of two possible solutions:
1- Open an URL from the cron job, which hits a controller and does what it has to do.
2- Call a Kohana controller without passing through the web server, but with the PHP CLI. (is that even possible? I don't think so, it might need the web server environment to work)

Know a solution? Thanks

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 12 '09 at 15:28

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with the kohana framework you can pass the "uri" as a command line parameter:

/path/to/index.php controller/method/param

you might want to try that, you will definitely need a controller but you dont need to use wget or curl

answered Nov 12 '09 at 15:28

Nodren

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That syntax is for K2, for K3 you need `php index.php --uri="uri/path"` – Matt Nov 03 '10 at 11:53

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 12 '09 at 13:33

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Can't you just curl or wget the URL?

answered Nov 12 '09 at 13:33

Paul Tomblin

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I think this can work in many cases, however if your cron job takes a very long time to run, than maybe your curl will timeout. – Tamás Pap May 06 '13 at 10:02

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 01 '10 at 14:33

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You can do it as:

lynx > /dev/null -dump "URL"
wget -q -O /dev/null "URL"
fetch -o /dev/null "URL"
curl -s -o /dev/null "URL"

just replace URL

answered Nov 01 '10 at 14:33

Alex Rashkov

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Call a Kohana helper from cron (or any URL)

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