Hi All,

I've been racking the forums for 2 hours now and only seem to be moving forward slowly...

I've extended QuarterHourlyTask as follows:

<?php
class ZQQuarterHourlyTask extends QuarterHourlyTask {
   
   public function process(){
      $From = "test@gmail.com";
      $To = "test@gmail.com";    
      $email = new Email($From, $To, "TEST TASK", "TEST TASK");
      $email->send();
      
      Debug::message("Yes it works! Yippie!");
   }
   
}

this seems to work fine if I go to http://mysite/ZQQuarterHourlyTask and the email gets sent a-ok and I can see the debug message.

Problem is... as of yet it doesn't send the email automatically every fifteen minutes it ONLY works when I test it through the URL?

Am I missing somthing here?

Any help would be great! I'm tearing my hair out.
I'm running wamp on a pc if that helps

Thanks heaps!

Jamie

Hi Jamie,

I wasn't aware of this function before but if you look at the API docs http://api.silverstripe.org/trunk/sapphire/cron/ScheduledTask.html you can see that it's not enough to subclass a ScheduledTask - you still have to trigger the tasks by using something like cron. There's a sample cron setup on that page but I'm not sure how you would set up same on WAMP.

I think so cron jobs aren't hard to set up in something like cpanel so if it works through the URL then I think you should be good