[Azakaru]

Hello everyone, and thank you for reading my post. I started hosting an Mccode server on my account, which has worked out just fine, but the cron jobs do not seem to want to work, either that, or I'm just asting your time here q.q . I wanted to use a cron job every 5 or minutes, tried it on diffrent time intervals and it still didn't work.
The Cron I want to activate is energy regeneration, which seems to stay at 0 even if the cronjob is on. This is the code inside the cron itself:

PHP Code:

require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/../mysql.php");
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/../global_func.php");
$cron_code = 'a57d16b7cad75b14ba73ecf03859e80a';
if ($argc == 2)
{
    if ($argv[1] != $cron_code)
    {
        exit;
    }
}
else if (!isset($_GET['code']) || $_GET['code'] !== $cron_code)
{
    exit;
}
// update for all users
$allusers_query =
        "UPDATE `users`
        SET `brave` = LEAST(`brave` + ((`maxbrave` / 10) + 0.5), `maxbrave`),
        `hp` = LEAST(`hp` + (`maxhp` / 3), `maxhp`),
        `will` = LEAST(`will` + 10, `maxwill`)";
mysql_query($allusers_query, $c);
//enerwill update
$en_nd_query =
        "UPDATE `users`
        SET `energy` = `maxenergy`
        WHERE `donatordays` = 0";
$en_don_query =
        "UPDATE `users`
        SET `energy` = LEAST(`energy` + (`maxenergy` / 6), `maxenergy`)
        WHERE `donatordays` > 0";
mysql_query($en_nd_query, $c);
mysql_query($en_don_query, $c); 


In the following 2 pictures you can see what the cron's path is and what path I used in the cronjobs menu.

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I would ask you to please try and see if what I did wrong and help me with steps to make this cron work properly:| .

[chanh]

Usually, cron issue are relate to the script not able to adapt to how and where it is run. search for cron and you will have lot of resource regarding issue.

[Azakaru]

ookay then, could you or someone please write me a script that sets energy for every user to be equal to maxenergy, or to be increased by a certain value (idk how much, I just want to see the script) ?

[grace1004]

maxbrave, maxhp, maxwill and maxenergy are seperate field names? or defined somewhere else?
Would you please manually execute cron_fivemins.php by entering:

http://yourdomain.com/crons/cron_fivemins.php, and see if it works.

If you want to run the cron job every five minutes the frequency should be set up:

*/5 * * * *

In my case, cron jobs which worked several months ago, are not working these days
in 000webhost.com server. This means that you need to wait until admin people solve
this problem.

[Azakaru]

I tried a lot of times to manually execute it but it's of no use... Nothing happens:/ as to if they are defined in diffrent files, I don't really know... Also, where to put the */5 * * * and that kind of crons? When I installed mccode (a customisable source) it told me something about further configuring cron jobs, 4 diffrent timers, for 1 minute 5 minutes, an hour and a day, followed by the paths to the crons and some codes... As you can see, it says something about that code in the script I posted but I don't know what that is

[grace1004]

15 0 * * *--means 0:15 AM (midnight), every day, every month, every week day.

Minimum interval which can be set up in free hosting is every 5 minutes; every 1 minute
is not allowed.

In your CPanel, click 'Cron Jobs' icon - You will get 'Cron Jobs Manager' showing some
example how to set up intervals. You can set up intervals on 'Add new Cron Job' form
placed next to Cron Jobs Manager.

Before setting up your cron job, you need to correct your script first. Did you write
the code by yourself? I need your answer to my question in my previous post above.

[Azakaru]

I didn't write it by myself... the code was taken from http://mccodes.com/products.php?id=2 as a shared game ... can you look at that please? It's free and it's a standalone source... It's just that the crons don't work :/

[grace1004]

To upload game contents is not allowed in free hosting plus currently cron jobs are not
working either. If you really want to run game site, I recommend to upgrade to premium
account.

[Azakaru]

oh, I see... but can you at least tell me how the script should look like? :/

[grace1004]

It seems that paths for required files are not correct.
Please try again after changing as follows:

From:
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/../mysql.php");
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/../global_func.php");

To:
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/' . 'mysql.php');
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/' . 'global_func.php');