PHP ob_* from cronjob?

Question

Hi guys, I'm experiencing some problems with ob_* function when it runs as a cronjob:

<?php
function getLayout($file, $extract=array()) {

    if (is_file($file)) {

     if (count($extract) > 0) {
      extract($extract);
     }

     ob_start();
     include $file;
     $contents = ob_get_contents();
     ob_end_clean();

     return $contents;
    }

    return false;
}

file_put_contents('somecachefile.html', getLayout('somefile.php', array('var1'=>$val1, 'var2'=>$val2)));
?>

The cronjob is setup like this: (runs every minute)

* * * * * /usr/bin/php /path/to/cron.php > /dev/null

In this case nothing happen but the cron really ran.

If i call this (/usr/bin/php /path/to/cron.php) from the command line everything is working as expected.

Any ideas where i make a mistake???

Thanks for the help upfront!

Answer 1

You probably need to use an absolute path on 'somefile.php'. It is probably getting created in the pwd of cron. Or you could do a chdir at the beginning of the script of in the cron statement.