My latest little project has needed some automation to take it beyond me visiting a link everyday. I wanted to have a script that I had built in CakePHP just run at intervals, so that I wouldn't have to manually run it. I was pointed in the direction of Cron a "... a time-based scheduling service in Unix-like computer operating systems" (link). Setting it up to run with CakePHP was rather simple, so lets see how.
