ci-crontab

Crontab manager and CLI helper (intended) for CodeIgniter

Features

• Directly interacts with system level crontab to maintain cronjobs.
• Differentiates between cronjobs managed by itself and external cronjobs such as not to interfere with these.
• Identifies any cronjob with an ID, which allows any caller to uniquely add/remove it.
• Allows once cronjobs, that run only .. once.
• Provides an entry point for actual cronjobs, such that it may be called directly from any cronjob, eg: php /path/to/ci/application/third_party/cronjob.php --ci-job-id=abc --once 'controller/method/argument'

Using as library w/o CodeIgniter

It is intended for use within an CI application, but can easily be used otherwise. The main-file containing the manager assumes that it will be either called from within CI, or on the commandline by a cronjob; so to incorporate it in any other library you can define CRONTAB_AS_LIB previous to including the manager, ie

define('CRONTAB_AS_LIB',TRUE);
require_once 'my/path/to/crontab.php';

Files

1. /application/third_party/crontab.php Manager and CLI bootstrap
2. /application/libraries/Crontab.php CI-wrap
3. /bin/crontab.php CLI for manager (proof of concept)

License LGPLv3