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Where is this site hosted? &nbsp;Your hosting company may be able to help you set up a CRON job.
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Where is this site hosted?  Your hosting company may be able to help you set up a CRON job.

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I'm hosted on iPage. I've checked and they don't support Cron. Therefore I will need to use poormanscron instead. Does this use the same hooks?
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I'm hosted on iPage. I've checked and they don't support Cron. Therefore I will need to use poormanscron instead. Does this use the same hooks?

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Is iPage a Windows system? &nbsp;You may be able to use the Task Scheduler. &nbsp;(I couldn't tell you how; I do not know windows hosting very well).
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Is iPage a Windows system?  You may be able to use the Task Scheduler.  (I couldn't tell you how; I do not know windows hosting very well).

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iPage hosts on Linux. Please only comment unless it's regarding how to configure Drupal modules with poormanscron.
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iPage hosts on Linux. Please only comment unless it's regarding how to configure Drupal modules with poormanscron.

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The answer is no. Poor Man's cron has been incorporated into Drupal 7, and all you can do is run it. Have you looked at:<br />
<a href="http://drupal.org/project/ultimate_cron" rel="ugc">http://drupal.org/project/ultimate_cron</a><br />
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I have never used it though, it's usually so easy to do cron outside Drupal on the hosting.
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The answer is no. Poor Man's cron has been incorporated into Drupal 7, and all you can do is run it. Have you looked at:
http://drupal.org/project/ultimate_cron [http://drupal.org/project/ultimate_cron]
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I have never used it though, it's usually so easy to do cron outside Drupal on the hosting.

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I thought you were a basic Drupal user, but obviously you are at a higher level.
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I thought you were a basic Drupal user, but obviously you are at a higher level.

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Great resources at drupal.org.
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I've got a php script created that parses heavy amounts of data from various sites. I'm running Drupal 7 on my site and I'd like to setup the module so that certain parts of the script can be run periodically. Is this possible with poormanscron in Drupal 7?
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I've got a php script created that parses heavy amounts of data from various sites. I'm running Drupal 7 on my site and I'd like to setup the module so that certain parts of the script can be run periodically. Is this possible with poormanscron in Drupal 7?

Drupal Module Cron

Drupal is an open-source content-management framework written in PHP used as a back-end framework for websites and is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration. The standard release of Drupal contains basic features common to content management systems, including user account registration and maintenance, menu management, RSS feeds, taxonomy, page layout customization, and system administration. Drupal runs on any computing platform that supports both a Web server capable of running PHP and a database to store content and configuration.

Drupal

PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language especially suited for web development, powering tens of millions of sites from Facebook to personal WordPress blogs. PHP is often paired with the MySQL relational database, but includes support for most other mainstream databases. By utilizing different Server APIs, PHP can work on many different web servers as a server-side scripting language.