Hi folks --
I've been asked to quote on a custom job that will involve using cron to trigger store actions at specific dates & times, selected in advance by the store manager. He may not want to mess around with cron jobs in the control panel. I'd like to put some settings on an admin page that he can use for this.
I've done some reading on the format of crontab files, and I can write a module that works with that. But where is this file located in a typical Miva store? And can a module edit the file, or will there be permission problems?
And of course, if anyone has an alternative, non-cron solution, please chime in! In case it matters, this will be used to trigger one-time events, not something that needs to run on a regular schedule.
Thanks --
I've been asked to quote on a custom job that will involve using cron to trigger store actions at specific dates & times, selected in advance by the store manager. He may not want to mess around with cron jobs in the control panel. I'd like to put some settings on an admin page that he can use for this.
I've done some reading on the format of crontab files, and I can write a module that works with that. But where is this file located in a typical Miva store? And can a module edit the file, or will there be permission problems?
And of course, if anyone has an alternative, non-cron solution, please chime in! In case it matters, this will be used to trigger one-time events, not something that needs to run on a regular schedule.
Thanks --
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