Hello,

I've built a news site using SimplePie to pull in a set of feeds and display them on a page. The caching is working but the problem is that the first initial load is slow. After that, you can hit refresh and it loads very quickly. I'd like to eliminate that first slow load by creating a cronjob, which is what I've heard many other people do. I'm very new to crons and programming in general so hopefully someone can help me understand this.

I found one example of a guy using the following cron to automatically visit his page and he syncronized the cache duration, thus eliminating any slow starts:

0,15,30,45 * * * * wget -q --spider http://thewebsite.com

The problem I found was that my host doesn't support wget (or lynx, or ssh) so I've been trying to write a cron that will achieve the same results but using either curl or php. Here is what I have so far:

*/15 * * * * curl --silent --compressed http://www.mysite.com/index.php

*/15 * * * * php /home/username/public_html/index.php

Again, I found these examples from reading other resources so I'm not entirely sure what they're doing or if they're correct for my situation. I've also set the cache duration to match at 15 minutes. When I run either the curl or php cron above, in my e-mail I receive the entire html source for the specified index.php. I'm assuming this means they're working correctly, but still my news page has that initial slow load. I'm open to any thoughts or ideas. Thanks in advance.

Well if you are useing cpanel for yourcron job you can do the simple version like this

CRON Command is in the Following Format
[ Minute - Hour - Day - Month - Weekday ] - Command
COMMAND, can be broken down in
[PATH OF PHP] [ARGUMENTS] [PATH OF PHP SCRIPT]
COMPLETE CRON command
[ Minute - Hour - Day - Month - Weekday ] [PATH OF PHP] [ARGUMENTS] [PATH OF PHP SCRIPT]
timing is spedified using * symbols
* * * * * => Execute every minute
0 * * * * => Execute every Hour
0 0 * * * => Execute every mid-night
0 0 0 * * => Execute every Month
0 0 0 0 * => Execute every Weekday

UNIX command, You will have to Mention the PATH of PHP file
PATH TO PHP : /usr/local/bin/php

Possible Command line Arguments you can use


-a Run interactively
-b <addressort>|<port> Bind Path for external FASTCGI Server mode
-C Do not chdir to the script's directory
-c <path>|<file> Look for php.ini file in this directory
-n No php.ini file will be used
-d foo[=bar] Define INI entry foo with value 'bar'
-e Generate extended information for debugger/profiler
-f <file> Parse <file>. Implies `-q'
-h This help
-i PHP information
-l Syntax check only (lint)
-m Show compiled in modules
-q Quiet-mode. Suppress HTTP Header output.
-s Display colour syntax highlighted source.
-v Version number
-w Display source with stripped comments and whitespace.
-z <file> Load Zend extension <file>.


Complete CRON command would be
0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/tom/public_html/cron/myfile.php


Not sure this will help you for curl as i not no much on curl
here a link

http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-3441.html

http://docs.phplist.com/CronJobExamples