在特定日期安排php脚本，只需在Openshift中运行一次

Question

I need to develop a web application to let me scheduled tasks at certain date. I have checked cron jobs and looks like is just for periodic tasks. In the other hand I just need schedule a single task at certain date without repetition.

Should I use cron jobs?

PD: a task is a php script.

Answer 1

According to this fantastic tutorial about Cron in openshift I know how use it.

Depends on the accuracy you want to achieve.

In example, in .openshift/cron/minutely/certain_date.sh

#!/bin/bash
DATE=`date +%D` #MM/DD/YY
HOUR=`date +%H`
MINUTE=`date +%M`


if [ "$DATE" == "12/21/14" -a "$HOUR" == "23" -a "$MINUTE" == "15" ];then
    (
        #date >> $CUSTOM_REPO_DIR/certain_date.txt
        cd $CUSTOM_REPO_DIR ; #/usr/local/zend/bin/php
        $CUSTOM_PHP cron_certain_date.php
    )
fi