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.

Create a blank text document named cron-test.txt and upload it into your test folder. Change the CHMOD settings on it to 777.

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" ;
?>

Finally, enter the following line into your crontab file:
```
* * * * * php /yourfolder/cron-test.php
```
Wait a couple minutes and then open up cron-test.txt and see what's there.