I am trying to set up a CRON job to run multiple url's from a PHP file but am very very much unsure how to do this.

What I am doing is setting up a site for a Clan wars group and there are over 200 members in there group, every 24 hours they are allowed to receive a gift from a teammate.

I was hoping to automate this since 1 teammate can send to all it would just make sense if I can put all of the teammates gift url from a single teammate in a file and then run it from a CRON job, this will help them from having to go to the url themselves.

If anyone can give me some ideas on how I would set this up in a PHP file, thanks a lot.

Easy, Add more than one cron.

For example
cron #1 - file1.php
cron #2 - file2.php
cron #3 - file3.php

Or just have a one PHP file that uses file_get_contents(the files you want.php); or runs the scripts you want to run.

Originally Posted by rogem002

Easy, Add more than one cron.

For example
cron #1 - file1.php
cron #2 - file2.php
cron #3 - file3.php

Or just have a one PHP file that uses file_get_contents(the files you want.php); or runs the scripts you want to run.

Hello Roger,

Thanks for trying to help on this.

This will be my first time trying to set up a cron so am very new to the whole thing. I have been searching and reading but when things are new they are always hard to understand, so your suggestions are greatly appreciated.


I can't set up a CRON for each file, I just looked to get an accurate count and there are a little under 300 members so that would deffinitley not work.

You second suggestions is what I would like to do but am not sure how to build the file or what is supposed to be in it to go hit the url's.


Basically it would be like:

http://somesite.com/member1
http://somesite.com/member2
http://somesite.com/member3
http://somesite.com/member4
etc.
etc.

Right now it would be almost up to 300 but am sure they will grow so it would have to be able to have more added.

I do know and understand what CRONS are I just never had to make a CRON file.

Thanks again.

Rogem, so kind of you.your information helped me so much