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WPRobot PHP CLI Cron Job

Hello,

Today we will learn how to setup a WPRobot cron job which can be run using PHP-CLI (Command Line interface) which is far better than wget on busy servers.

Problem with wget

Normally as per WPRobot documentation you can run cron job by using wget or curl or lynx or even opening the URL in browser.When you are making many posts or if your website a very busy one this will be a problem and may result in timeouts.Another major issue is cron jobs will setup connections to the server internally but these are also treated as clients/visitors by apache this may degrade the performance by retuning 503 errors to the original end client .On one of our server with all WPRobot 3 cronjobs running on 120 websites we have observed that this connections count is more than 700 but if we disable the cron this connections are going down to 40-50 (real visitors).Here in first case all will be treated as visitors which result in performance degrade but this is the only way we can run WPRobot cron job as per there documentation.

Solution:

Finally after struggling a lot for 2 days we managed to write a code which can run WPRobot Cron jobs from PHP-CLI without need of establishing connections to Apache.This doesn't make a very big difference but will help to avoid Timeouts while running cron jobs on busy servers.

Setup and Usage

Step : 1 - Download the cron-cli.php and upload cron-cli.php to your WPRobot3 folder ( /wp-content/plugins/WPRobot3/)

Step : 2 - Create the cron job in the format as shown in examples below.

Assuming you are using cPanel the folder structure is given below.

The same examples shown here  http://wprobot.net/documentation/#94a are replicated.Here replace 'username' with your cPanel username and point the job to exact location of WPRobot3 folder if you are using sub domains or ad don domains.

UNIQUECODE is different from different blogs you can get this code from Options page of your WPRobot .In options page scroll down to bottom of the page in exmaple cron jobs show there you can see your UNIQUECODE place that code with switch

-code="uniquecode"

Note: " " (quotes ) are must in "UNIQUECODE"

Basic

php -q /home/username/public_html/wp-content/plugins/WPRobot3/cron-cli.php -code="UNIQUECODE"

With Advanced Tags

1.will create one post for one random campaign.

php -q /home/username/public_html/wp-content/plugins/WPRobot3/cron-cli.php -code="UNIQUECODE" -mincamp=1 -maxcamp=1

2.will create one post for one to three random campaign and backdate them up to 30 minutes.

php -q /home/username/public_html/wp-content/plugins/WPRobot3/cron-cli.php -code="UNIQUECODE" -mincamp=1 -maxcamp=1 -randtime=30

3.will create one to three posts for the campaign with the ID "2".

php -q /home/username/public_html/wp-content/plugins/WPRobot3/cron-cli.php -code="UNIQUECODE" -mincamp=1 -maxcamp=3 -id=2

4.will create one to three posts for one random campaign.

php -q /home/username/public_html/wp-content/plugins/WPRobot3/cron-cli.php -code="UNIQUECODE" -mincamp=1 -maxcamp=3 -minposts=1 -maxposts=3

5.will create one post for two or three random campaigns with a chance of 50% (otherwise nothing happens).

php -q /home/username/public_html/wp-content/plugins/WPRobot3/cron-cli.php -code="UNIQUECODE" -mincamp=1 -maxcamp=1 -chance=50

100% compatible with WPRobot3 and should work in same way like wget/curl/lynx but with more accuracy without establishing connections to Apache.

This is a Beta script feedback is much appriciated.

All Heroehost users can rise tickets if they have any issues using this Cron job they will get reply from our staff in 5-10mins.

For all others who read this post please post a reply with your problems we will guide/correct the issues.

Download Link: cron-cli.php (  http://heroehost.com/order/dl.php?type=d&id=2 )