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What is it?

This module allows you to schedule Xaraya jobs at certain times of the day/week/month (cron)

Those jobs could be for instance :

sending a daily digest mail
expiring temporary user passwords
escalating a workflow process
doing a backup of the database
refreshing cache files
...

How to use it?

The scheduler module relies on other modules to actually execute whatever jobs are scheduled, so first you need to find out which module functions can be scheduled.

Search for scheduler API functions

Then you need some kind of trigger to wake up the scheduler - this can be done e.g. by requesting a specific webpage automatically from your own system via a Unix cron entry or Windows AT command, or via a web-based scheduler service like http://webcron.org/, or (if you really have no other choice) by relying on web hits from your visitors if your site is relatively busy.

The rest will be handled by the scheduler module :-)

Included Blocks

Trigger block. This block will trigger the scheduler process. You can hide it from view, or let administrator see the progress. The block will then show the time the last trigger was run.

Included Hooks

to be defined

Further Information

Further information on the Scheduler module can be found at

Scheduler Extension page at Xaraya Extension and Releases. Click on Version History tab at the bottom to get the latest release information.
Related tutorials and documentation on Scheduler found at Xaraya Documentation.

** Scheduler Module Overview**
Version 1.0.1 2006-07-20

xaraya / scheduler

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