CakePHP how send email notification - email

Question

I'm trying to send email notification to some users via cron job in my app.
After a few hours of reading, I've understood that the best way to do that is using Shell.
Please can someone help me to understand how to do that, how can I use one myShell class's different actions to send different notifications? I mean that how can cron access to myShell different actions.
for example.
<?php
class MyShell extends Shell {
function send_task_notifications(){
.... //this must send email every day at 00:00 am
}
function send_new_post_notifications() {
.... //this must send email every week//
}
}
?>
Both of this actions are in MyShell class.
So how can I call one of them via Cron and is this MyShell class accessible by the URL?

Answer 1

Your shell need to change in the following way, you need to pass a parameters based on that parameters it will execute email notification/push notification. Move your functions to a component it will work
<?php
class MyShell extends Shell {
function main()
{
$option = !empty($this->args[0]) ? $this->args[0] : ”;
echo ‘Cron started without any issue.’;
App::import(‘Component’, 'MyOwnComponent');
$this->MyOwnComponent = &new MyOwnComponent();
switch ($option)
{
case 'task_notifications':
$this->MyOwnComponent->send_task_notifications();
break;
case 'post_notifications':
$this->MyOwnComponent->send_new_post_notifications();
break;
default:
echo 'No Parameters passed .';
}
}
}
?>
Your Component file as follows
<?php
class MyOwnComponent extends Object
{
function send_task_notifications(){
.... //this must send email every day at 00:00 am
}
function send_new_post_notifications() {
.... //this must send email every week//
}
}
?>
For more details refer the link http://cakephpsaint.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/6-steps-to-create-cron-jobs-in-cakephp/