Reservation Reminders: Not really a bug....

[franky4fingers]

Hi Nick,
on the readme.html file you wrote:

Reservation Reminders
Linux Steps
1. Open your crontab editor: crontab –e
2. Add a line to the crontab entry of the user running the web server process to run the email reminder script. Replace the directory structure below with your phpScheduleIt install path:

Code:

1 * * * * cd /web/directory/phpscheduleit/cmd; ./send_reminders.php

It means that the script runs every hour (08:01 - 09:01 - 10:01 - 11:01 etc.), don't you think is a range too big to handle reservation reminders of a few minutes?

Or you would say:

Code:

*/1 * * * * cd /web/directory/phpscheduleit/cmd; ./send_reminders.php

who starts the job every minutes?

Let me know, thanks!!!

Also if someone has php installed as apache module it doesn' work.
It's necessary to install the php-cli  (command-line interpreter).

For Debian distribution:

Code:

apt-get install php4-cli

At the end change the line above:

Code:

*/1 * * * * cd /web/directory/phpscheduleit/cmd; php4 ./send_reminders.php

Thanks,

franky4fingers

[Nick]

Please let me know if those instructions are wrong.  I have no experience with cron jobs, so that syntax is just what I was told.  If it is incorrect, let me know so I can fix it in the readme.  Thanks.

[franky4fingers]

Please let me know if those instructions are wrong.  I have no experience with cron jobs, so that syntax is just what I was told.  If it is incorrect, let me know so I can fix it in the readme.  Thanks.

Nothing's wrong, everything dipends on how many minutes before the reservation's start, we want to receive the mail's reminder .
If we configure te config.php with:

Code:

$conf['app']['allowed_reminder_times'] = array(5, 10, 15, 20, 30);

it means we could want to receive a mail 5 min before the reservation start.
So the job cannot run every hour....it must run with a higher frequency, 2 min. 1 min:

Code:

*/1 * * * * cd /web/directory/phpscheduleit/cmd; ./send_reminders.php

The job is scheduled to run every minutes!!


If we need something different:

Code:

$conf['app']['allowed_reminder_times'] = array(180, 240, 300);

that is a reminder minimun 3 hours before the reservation start time it's ok to schedule the job with lower frequency:

Code:

1 * * * * cd /web/directory/phpscheduleit/cmd; ./send_reminders.php

(every 09:01 - 10:01 - 11:01 - 12:01 - etc.) or

Code:

* */1 * * * cd /web/directory/phpscheduleit/cmd; ./send_reminders.php

(better: every 09:00 - 10:00 - 11:00 - 12:00 - etc.)

At the end you could change the readme just saying: "Run your job with the frequency you need  - v. config.php - $conf['app']['allowed_reminder_times']"

What do you think?

franky4fingers