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Reputation: 33

How to setup cron script in moodle through plugin

I want to run my cron script at sheduled intervels created at blocks/plugin_name/cron.php . Please help me how to create and call this cron script to run at regular intervels.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4211

Answers (1)

Russell England
Russell England

Reputation: 10241

Cron.php is the old way, you should create a function plugin_name_cron() in blocks/plugin_name/lib.php

Then in version.php you have a cron parameter which will tell Moodle to run the plugin every x seconds.

$plugin->cron = 0; // Seconds.

So every 15 minutes is 

$plugin->cron = 15*60; // Seconds.

0 seconds means never run the cron.

This does depend on the admin cron being run too. If the admin cron is run ever 60 minutes then your plugin cron will only be run every 60 minutes.

For testing you can run the admin cron manually from http://yoursite.com/admin/cron.php

If you want to schedule the cron to run at a certain time, then you will need to add some code to your cron function to work out the scheduled time.

EDIT:

Actually the cron function is slightly different for blocks. Create a function cron() in your class class block_plugin_name extends block_base..

UPDATE:

From Moodle 2.7+, the above has been replaced with scheduled tasks https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Task_API#Scheduled_task_usage

Upvotes: 5

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