CodeIgniter Cron Job on Shared Hosting?

Question

I am trying to learn how to do my first cron job using CodeIgniter. In the past, it seemed the only way to do this with CI was to use the wget command instead of

Answer 1

If you are going to call it like a web browser, why not replace the cronjob command with:

wget http://example.com/cronjob/

instead of creating something new or simply

curl --suppress http://example.com/cronjob/`