Processwire as Taskmanager

[pwired]

Hi,

For automated jobs like backups, pings, emailalerts, sms, etc

there is of course cron jobs. But lately I have in my mind

how to use processwire that could do these things. Would it

not be great to use the api of processwire, php scripts inside

inc files, etc. etc. and then have somehow the admin to handle

all this. Would this be something useful to do ? I think it would

also serve as a great way to learn more about processwire.

You guys can give me a start ?

How would I send a ping with processwire to see if a website

is alive and then send an email about it ?

How would I setup a timer in processwire in general.

How would I use this timer to send an automated mail to check

if a clients email program is still receiving emails ok.

[horst]

In a first glance it looks interesting, but after the second I would say it isn't worth. You just would mimik something what is already available, only on another layer. For me it would be better to invest the needed energy into something like using linux / unix system calls via ssh. There is already everything one need for those stuff. And if one do not have access to shell on cheap shared hostings, I believe one also will not get something useful to work via a PHP-PW extra layer.

EDIT:

and for all things related to PW, I use bootstrap scripts from the commandline.

Edited March 16, 2015 by horst

[LostKobrakai]

What I could imagine is using processwire as dashboard for those information, but the tools to analyse these things just wouldn't benefit from processwire itself.

[pwired]

@LostKobraKai

What about writing your own modules as these tools ?

[Soma]

Your post always read like this:

You should not make line breaks.

[pwired]

Ok Soma, thanks for the feed back, I have this habit also when I write my emails.

Let me work on it.