Cronjob via HTTP

A cron job can either, as you mentioned, execute a PHP script over HTTP using a URL or by the command line using a file path. If you use the latter, command line file path, the is_cli_request() will be TRUE. Any script executed by the command line is a CLI request.

CLI here does not mean it you specifically have access to the command line (SSH). It is used to let your script know if it was executed by a command line command, like cron.

It sounds like you use some type of hosting control panel like cPanel, Plesk or such. You should be just fine to use a local path to the script and then use is_cli_request() in your script to block any execution over HTTP.

Also, as a note. When executing over command line, you should set your path to

Code:

path/to/ci/index.php <controller> <function>

where <controller> = the name of your script controller, and <function> = The function in that controller.