Schedule a Control Application using Cron or similar

Scriptcase 8 Discussion
#1

I would like to Cron job a Control Application… but I can’t seem to get it to work from cron running it with PHP directly from the command line. If I use the index.php file in the folder of my application, or if I use the application name + .php (Example Myapp.php) I get the same output with error:

  PHP Fatal error:  Using $this when not in object context in /var/www/Myapp/index.php on line 1636 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"             "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">          <HTML>          <HEAD>           <TITLE></TITLE>           <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=" />           <META http-equiv="Expires" content="Fri, Jan 01 1900 00:00:00 GMT"/>          <META http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"/>           <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../_lib/css/Sc6_Silver/Sc6_Silver_form.css" />           <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../_lib/css/Sc6_Silver/Sc6_Silver_form.css" />           <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../_lib/buttons//.css" />          </HEAD>          <body class="scFormPage">           <div class="scFormBorder">           <table align="center" style="width: 100%" class="scFormTable"><tr><td class="scFormDataOdd" style="padding: 15px 30px; text-align: center">            Unauthorized user          <br />           <form name="Fseg" method="post"                                action="Myapp_fim.php"                                target="_self">             <input type="hidden" name="script_case_init" value="
#2

From commandline
wget --quiet -O /var/log/logfile.txt http://localhost/application/index.p...r=valparameter

#3

From commandline

wget --quiet -O /var/log/logfile.txt http://localhost/application/index.php?parameter=valparameter
#4

A control is a form application and require interactive control. That’s why it won’t work in a cron. You can - however - create applications in sc for cron. But then you need to use blank applications. Advantage is that you can use the connection and db macro’s.

#5

Thank you both for your help.

@cerelli Its working perfectly now!

@aducom I wondered if “Control” was the correct kind of application to use when I started creating this… I see now where “Blank” would have been a better way to go, since Im just using a text box to display the output from my own PHP code thats in an onload event.

#6

Well apearantly the form does work in a cron. But I wonder where the output is going to…

#7

I think its dropping the output into that log file thats specified… but it just overwrites it each time (I hope) or It will just keep getting bigger. :slight_smile: