Quick Cron Job Test

Here's a couple steps that will help your to quickly determine whether the tasks you're setting up in crontab are actually running.

1. Create a blank text document named cron-test.txt and upload it into your test folder. Change the CHMOD settings on it to 777.
2. Create a file named cron-test.php with the following code in the same folder:
   

   <?php
   $crontext = "Cron Run at ".date("r")." by ".$_SERVER['USER']."\n" ;
   $folder = substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'],0,strrpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'],"/")+1);
   $filename = $folder."cron-test.txt" ;
   $fp = fopen($filename,"a") or die("Open error!");
   fwrite($fp, $crontext) or die("Write error!");
   fclose($fp);
   echo "Wrote to ".$filename."\n\n" ;
   ?>
   

3. Finally, enter the following line into your crontab file:
   

   * * * * * php /yourfolder/cron-test.php
   

4. Wait a couple minutes and then open up cron-test.txt and see what's there.

This post was published on Monday, December 15th, 2008 by Robert James Reese in the following categories: cron jobs, PHP. Before using any of the code or other content in this post, you must read and agree to our Terms & Conditions.

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