Scheduler Timeline Extensions for TYPO3 and Magento

Both TYPO3 and Magento allow you to perform task on a regular basis. TYPO3 comes with the Scheduler extension and Magento with Mage_Cron. While TYPO3′s scheduler comes with an interface to configure and schedule tasks, Magento does everything behind th…

How to automaticaly cancel orders older than 90 minutes

Here you can see how to cancel orders older than 90 minutes which have state “pending_payment”. We created observer class “Inchoo_Order_Model_Observer” with public method “cancelPendingOrders“. We are calling this method over cron script, take a look at our config.xml file …

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Updates for Aoe_Scheduler, Aoe_TemplateHints and Aoe_CacheCleaner

Last Week I’ve put all my free Magento modules on Github. That was a good idea as I already got two contributions to my modules.
I’ve decided to go on with Github and will manage all my package downloads there. There will be tags for all versions (vX…

Magento Cron Scheduler v0.0.3

Bugfix release for the Magento Cron Scheduler module. See original post for details.
Aoe_Scheduler (v0.0.3)

Magento Cron Scheduler v0.0.2

Here it is: The updated version of my Magento Cron Scheduler extension. See my original blog post for details.
Release notes:
New feature:- Added possibility to have cron jobs return messages by having the cron method returning a value (on failure an…

Magento Cron Scheduler

Even though I’m currently having a great time at the TYPO3 Snowboard Tour in Zell am See I did some Magento hacking these days I want to share with you:
Using cron jobs in Magento is a very useful way to perform recurring tasks in the background. You …

Tâche Cron Magento non mise au statut Running

Le problème Lorsque le cache Magento est activé, une tâche ne passe pas en statut Running avant de passer en statut Success. Or, si une tâche Cron prend plus de temps que le délai entre l’exécution de deux instances du [...]

Handling intensive Magento tasks in the background, simulating AJAX via CRON

For those of a weak hart, please skip this article. Before I start presenting the idea, please note that this is just an idea. So what’s it about? In our everyday Magento development there are numerous examples/tasks where we need to import some data into Magento or programmatically create some entries like products, orders, customers, [...]