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Allowing Cron to Run a controller/function but not a standard user - El Forum - 08-08-2008 [eluser]Eric Cope[/eluser] I need to run a portion of my code with a cron - only a cron. I do not want it to be ran by users. Any idea how to prevent users from running a controller function, but allowing cron? Allowing Cron to Run a controller/function but not a standard user - El Forum - 08-08-2008 [eluser]Jilani Jidni[/eluser] [quote author="Eric Cope" date="1218194812"]I need to run a portion of my code with a cron - only a cron. I do not want it to be ran by users. Any idea how to prevent users from running a controller function, but allowing cron?[/quote] Use hash (encrypted) code to do this what a user won't know. Allowing Cron to Run a controller/function but not a standard user - El Forum - 08-08-2008 [eluser]drewbee[/eluser] I never put cron ran scripts outside of public directories, so its never really been an issue. Though with CI, I do my own connections to the databases and like, and completely opt out of anything code igniter (since it usually is pure scripting anyways). This is my usual structure. /public_html/ /system/application /cron/ Allowing Cron to Run a controller/function but not a standard user - El Forum - 08-08-2008 [eluser]Eric Cope[/eluser] I was hoping to take advantage of the models I have already created... If I use a new index.php file in cron, and I set a global variable there, that might work... |