Croninfinite | croning cron without cron

Croninfinite allows you to run cron just like a cron job - but completely without a crontab, a site visitor or a manual cron run. It's really a kind of PHP implementation of the unix cron utility what is recommended for most sites.

Use cases

• You don't want to rely on drupals default cron setting (only triggers if your site is visited).
• You are not able to use or don't even know about unix crontab.
• But you want to have your cron run routinely.

How to use it?

After installation you have to configure the interval cron should be triggered at cron's settings page (admin/config/system/cron) and start croninfinite.
Now it should keep running as background process and trigger cron as desired.

Advanced cron-timing

Croninfinite offers you a very comfortable way to time your cron runs but sometimes this is not enough and you need an advanced timing. This is what timing-rules are made for:
The format of rules for advanced timing is very similar to the unix crontab utility syntax:

* * * * * <= the timing-rule
┬ ┬ ┬ ┬ ┬
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ └──── Weekday (0-6) (Sunday=0) [-Weekday]
│ │ │ └────── Month (1-12) [-Month]
│ │ └──────── Day (1-31) [-Day]
│ └────────── [*/] Hour (0-23)
└──────────── [*/] Minute (0-59)

Examples:

Related modules

• Ultimate Cron (Similar but more advanced)
• Background Process (Similar technology)
• Elysia Cron (Similar timing granularity)