Create a custom cron job

Question

I need to create a routine that does the following tasks:

• Delete files in a specific folder that are more than 15 days of creation.
• Clear the cache folder daily
• Clean other specific folders also daily

I use easycron.com, therefore it's necessary that this routine is within the cron.php.

Answer 1

Since you want to work with clearing folders based on a date I would suggest that this will be easier by using standard Unix commands, assuming that your system is unix based.

If you look into the function find you will see that you can specify the time of creation by the option mtime.

An example of this is:

find /path/to/files* -mtime +5

This will find files that are older than 5 days. You can then use the option exec to call a command on the files found. In your case you could call rm and that would remove the files. An example of this would be:

find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

NOTE: be careful before you run anything that can remove files