How do I setup a cron job a script that is part of a zend framework project

Question

I have a zendframework project for which i need to run a script periodically to upload the content of a folder and another do download. The script itself is ready but I am strug

Answer 1

What I did was create a mini app called Scripts here is the structure:

Scripts
 -- Jobs
 -- Builds
 Abstract.php //abstract each job / build inherit from
 Bootstrap.php
 Index.php

I then use php /path/to/Scripts/Index.php --j=folderScript or /path/to/Scripts/Index.php --b=folderScript for a build script

I then overload the main zend_application bootstrap run method like so

public function run()
{
    $opts = new Zend_Console_Getopt(array(
                'build|b-s' => 'Cron Build Script to Run',
                'job|j-s' => 'Cron Job to run',
                'params|p-s' => 'Parameters to set',
            ));

    $opts->parse();

    $front = $this->getResource('FrontController');

    if (true === isset($opts->params)) {
        parse_str($opts->params, $params);
        $front->setParams($params);
    }

    $filter = new Zend_Filter_Word_CamelCaseToUnderscore();

    if (true === isset($opts->build)) {
        $build = $filter->filter($opts->build);
        $className = sprintf('Scripts_Build_%s', ucfirst($build));
    } else if (true === isset($opts->job)) {
        $job = $filter->filter($opts->job);
        $className = sprintf('Scripts_Jobs_%s', ucfirst($job));
    } else {
        $className = 'Scripts_Jobs_Dynamic';
    }

    if (false === class_exists($className)) {
        throw new Exception('Class "' . $className . '" Does Not Exist');
    } else {
        $front->setParam('bootstrap', $this);

        $logger = $this->initLogger();

        $fp = fopen(DATA_PATH . '/locks/' . md5($className), 'w+');

        if (!flock($fp, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB)) {
            $logger->info('Already Running');
            exit(0);
        }

        $logger->Subject($className);

        fwrite($fp, time());

        try {
            $class = new $className();

            $class->setLogger($logger)
                    ->init()
                    ->run();

            $logger->done('Operation Completed');
        } catch (Exception $e) {
            $logger->err($e->getMessage() . ' ' . $e->getTraceAsString());
            $logger->done('done with error');
        }

        flock($fp, LOCK_UN);
    }
}

Hope that gets you started, I looked at using a controller / module within ZF but seemed like too much overhead

Symfony uses a good approach with their app/console as well, could be worth looking into their setup