If cron is used to update post counts, how is it done on windows?

[Shamufish]

Installed XF on IIS...

The FAQ states:

"How and when are user and post counts updated?
The global user and post counts are updated via a cron job (Rebuild Board Totals Counter) every 10 minutes."

I can't see any scheduled tasks in my windows admin panel.

I'm confused... how is the post count updated then?

 

[Paul B]

The cron tasks are in the ACP -> Tools -> Cron Entries of your XenForo installation.

 

[Shamufish]

Right but CRONw is not installed on my box, so surely it can't be using CRON to schedule things.
I'm on windows, there is no cron.

 

[ragtek]

The xenforo cron doesn't need the unix cron job for this.

 

[Shamufish]

The xenforo cron doesn't need the unix cron job for this.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how this works?

 

[ragtek]

xenforo handels the cron jobs in an own db table.

cron.php is linked as a "image" in the footer, which is called if necessary

<xen:if is="{$cronLink}"><img src="{$cronLink}" width="1" height="1" alt="" style="display: none" /></xen:if>

and this script runs the cronjobs
(hope you know what i mean^^)

 

[Shamufish]

xenforo handels the cron jobs in an own db table.

cron.php is linked as a "image" in the footer, which is called if necessary

<xen:if is="{$cronLink}"><img src="{$cronLink}" width="1" height="1" alt="" style="display: none" /></xen:if>

and this script runs the cronjobs
(hope you know what i mean^^)

Makes perfect sense, thank you very much for that.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Makes perfect sense, thank you very much for that.

Which also means, if no one is browsing your forum, the cron jobs will not run, at all.
I remember a hack to turn the cron job into a real unix cron job, or in the case of windows, a scheduled tasks.

 

[ragtek]

hm, but does this really happen?

I thought that this would also cause some problems on my vB boards, but my pages have always at least 1 visitor (real or spider)

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

hm, but does this really happen?

I thought that this would also cause some problems on my vB boards, but my pages have always at least 1 visitor (real or spider)

That is correct, I don't think that would happen at all. And if there is nobody seeing the forum then the cron job might as well not run, why would one need to update the view counters if there is nobody to see them ....

Subscriptions and emails is a whole another topic, though.