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Command-line cron for Drupal

We have over 100 sites setup in a multi-site shared code-base environment. Cron runs every 10 minutes on every site. In order to prevent saturating our bandwidth with frequent cron calls, we setup a command-line php script that bootstraps Drupal and invokes cron. This has very little overhead since it bypasses [...]

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2009 02 11 srhaber Tech Comments (2)

Drupal Case Study on MCR: FeedAPI, SimplePie Parser, and Cron

Last week at WBR, we re-launched the website for My Chemical Romance. The site’s built on Drupal 6.x and showcases blogs, photos, and tweets directly from the band members.

To aggregate the Twitter feed, we used the FeedAPI module and associated SimplePie parser. Cron runs every 10 minutes to ensure the content [...]

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2008 12 01 srhaber Music
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