I found my answer to that question at waytocode.com
They provide 3 possible solutions to run cron jobs on Windows:
Solution-1 using Task scheduler
In your Windows 7/windows 2005/2008.
Go to Startmenu->All Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Task Scheduler->create Task
In the new window:
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General (Give the Task name and for testing you can select “Run when User is logged in“)
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Trigger (You can Select the running interval as “daily,weekly,monthly”. )
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Action (This is most important part. Select a Mozilla firefox as the “program/script” and in the Argument provide the URL to fire with Mozilla firefox).
Solution-2 using Task scheduler and PHP from your XAMPP server
In Windows Xp,no need to copy or install anything(Already PHP is installed on the server like XAMPP)
Goto Task scheduler
Create a task give Running time, then in avanced setting option in the “RUN” command textbox type
C:\xampp\php\php.exe -f c:/xampp/htdocs/waytocode/mycron.php
In Windows 7/server 2005/2008
No need to copy or install anything(Already PHP is installed on the server)
Create a task give Running time in Trigger setting.Then in Action setting option in the “Program/Script” command textbox type
C:\xampp\php\php.exe
and in the “Add arguments (optional)” type
-f c:/xampp/htdocs/mycron.php
Solution–3 install a Windows exe file that will simulate the cron job from *nix system
I don’t like to install any exe file to my servers or development machine,
but I’ll provide the solution as they posted:
In Windows Xp,Copy all 2 DLL file with wget.exe to the C:\windows folder
Create a task give Running time then in avanced setting option in the “RUN” command textbox type
C:\Windows\wget.exe -q -O NUL http://localhost/mycron.php
In Windows 7/server 2005/2008 ,Copy all 2 DLL file with wget.exe to the C:\windows folder
Create a task give Running time then in avanced setting option in the “Program/Script” command textbox type
C:\Windows\wget.exe
and in the “Add arguments (optional)” type
-q -O NUL http://localhost/mycron.php
Solution-4 using a .bat file and the task scheduler
I found it here at Stackoverflow and it is similar to the first 2:
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Create a cron.php file (the code you want to execute at a regular interval)
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Create a CRON.BAT file, copy and past the below code in the file
D:\xampp\php\php.exe D:\xampp\htdocs\Application\cron.php
The path I have written is according to my xampp and cron.php file, update the path of files according to your system directory
- To schedule a task
Click on start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Scheduled Tasks
Or you can go directly
Control Panel > Scheduled Tasks
Right click in the folder
New > Schedule Task
Give appropriate name to the Task.
In the RUN text field… Type the complete path of the CRON.BAT file
in my case it is
D:\xampp\htdocs\Application\CRON.BAT
Set the schedule of the job, you can use advanced button if required.
Solution-5
I don’t like it either because one script can’t depend on someone else website but it is a solution anyway.
Use an external online cron job service.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=cron+job+online+service
Chose one solution that it is more appropriate for you. Hope this will help someone.
UPDATE
Solution-6 (Based on the answers below, and works with CodeIgniter too!)
Create the cron.bat file and write the following command and save it.
@ECHO OFF
c:
cd C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer
START iexplore.exe http://localhost/path/to/cron/job/1
Create a task give Running time in Trigger setting.Then in Action setting option in the “Program/Script” command textbox type
C:\xampp\path\htdocs\folder\includes\cron.bat
END UPDATE
Answering your question:
Can it specific by php code or using another way to do this? Because i
want all the work done on php / server instead of need my user config
the cron job themselves. Which means i want my php code can set the
cron in server and server will look at the cron?
There are other ways to do this:
Using cron manager from within PHP
Using cron manager from within PHP
Managing Cron Jobs with PHP
http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/managing-cron-jobs-with-php-2–net-19428
Unfortunately, all solutions with PHP needs a *nix server type and / or cPanel and are more or less complicated to implement.