How do you run Curl in this plugin?

I am trying to run a curl function that will just load a specific page once per day. I am using the PHP Cron Event.

Here is my code:

// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.website.com/page/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);

?>

I have tried running this every 5 minutes…long story short it’s supposed to hit this page that will then run some scripts that will move some posts into specific categories…If I run the page myself manually everything works…but using this plugin nothing seems to happen.

I have been using a host that uses cpanel and have been able to use real cron jobs to do this before…but my company is considering moving to another host that does not support cpanel / real cron jobs so I need to find a solution…which is why I am looking at this plugin. Please assist! Thank You!

• This topic was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by jcherlin.