How to Setup a Cron Job in Magento Module

How to setup a cron job in Magento module?

In your modules config.xml put the following:

<config>
    <global>
        <models>
            <roomstoryinvoicecron>
                <class>Roomstory_Invoice_Model</class>
            </roomstoryinvoicecron>                         
        </models>
    </global>
    <crontab>
        <jobs>
            <roomstoryinvoicecron>
                <schedule>
                    <cron_expr>*/10 * * * *</cron_expr>
                </schedule>
                <run>
                    <model>roomstoryinvoicecron/observer::setStatus</model>
                </run>
            </roomstoryinvoicecron>
        </jobs>
    </crontab>
</config>

In app/code/local/Roomstory/Invoice/Model/Observer.php add the following:

<?php
class Roomstory_Invoice_Model_Observer {
    public function setStatus() {
        Mage::log("WORKS!");
    }
}

Make sure logging is enabled and it should work, check the log to be sure ;)

How to setup cron dynamically via admin in Magento 2

Magento2 has a different scheme to merge layout config so you have to create a new file that called crontab.xml under your_custom_module/etc folder. And then you can add your cron config like this one:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Cron:etc/crontab.xsd">
    <group id="default">
        <job name="custom_cronjob" instance="YourVenDoerName\CustomModule\Cron\Test" method="execute">
            <schedule>* * * * *</schedule>
        </job>
    </group>
</config>

How to setup magento cron job and init action of the controller?

As far as I have ever seen, you cannot directly run controller actions in a cronjob, since that is not a terribly sensible thing to do outside of a user context. The easiest thing to do here is to put that functionality you need into a model and call that from the cronjob.

More information on the controller action you want to fire would be helpful in giving further advice.

Hope that helps!

Thanks,
Joe

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