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Discuss features as they are added to the new version. Give us your feedback. Don't post bug reports, feature requests, support questions or suggestions here. Feature requests are closed.
Cron is the name of program that enables unix users to execute commands or
scripts (groups of commands) automatically at a specified time/date. It is
normally used for sys admin commands, like makewhatis, which builds a
search database for the man -k command, or for running a backup script,
but can be used for anything. A common use for it today is connecting to
the internet and downloading your email.
This file will look at Vixie Cron, a version of cron authored by Paul Vixie.
Wow, 3.0 has not even released, and you are already adding stuff for 3.2? Does this mean that the entire 3.x [Olympus] branch will be scraped for phpBB4 [Io]
The 3.2 feature list was largely set months ago (almost a year?!) when features were pulled from 3.0 to allow more focused development. Those were set aside for 3.2. Most user requests will probably end up in the 3.4/4.0 (whichever it ends up being) line.
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
Well I assume that, with Cron, you will be able to make scheduled tasks to do a number of things. When I think about a database driven application, and scheduled tasks, the first thing I think of is automated database backup.
But... there are plenty of other things you could do. Perhaps you want it to automatically prune the forums every six months? Or, maybe prune users. Or, maybe you want to have a certain forums automatically locked at a certain time for a certain period of time. Or maybe admin's can write a [global] announcement and have it posted in a couple of days (when admin may be out of town?) instead of now.
That is one example of what you can do with the cron function. You set up cron to execute commands or scripts automatically at a specified time and/or date.