Ghettocron
Ghettocron is an emulation of a real UNIX Cron daemon - a time-based scheduler that will execute a certain program at a specified time.Crontab
The list of cron jobs to run is traditionally stored in a crontab text file. In the Kitto Ghettocron system, this file is replaced by the cron_tab table in the database. The two important columns in this table are cron_frequency_seconds, which defines how many seconds must pass before the job is run again, and cron_class, which specifies what class to instantiate when running the cronjob.
Creating a New Job
Creating a new cronjob is easy. First, create a new class file in includes/cronjobs/. Your class should implement the Job interface and have a constructor that takes in a database connector as the first argument. You must defined the #performJob() method to do whatever work your cronjob needs to do.
<?php
class Job_BanEveryone implements Job
{
protected $db;
public function __construct(&$db)
{
$this->db = $db;
} // end __construct
public function performJob()
{
$this->db->query("UPDATE user SET access_level = 'banned'");
} // end performJob
} // end Job_BanEveryone
?>
Etymology
The term ghettocron is believed to have been coined by one of the Knight brothers at the dawn of the twenty-first century whilst he was working on the original Operation: Pet Game codebase.
