I have a situation where I have created an event on an existing CF v5 form that checks for specific values in a database table. I call this event successfully using a button in a CC v5 connection display. When it is called from the CC v5 button, within the CF form event the origin of the call is checked and if called from CC it generates a display of text.
I added a check to see if the CF was called from elsewhere and then instead of generating text, it uses the CF email action to send the admin an email instead. When I call this directly using a browser and a properly formatted URL it works fine.
However, I would like to call this CF event from Unix Chron. I have added an entry in ChronTab that makes the call. I use the same URL that I tested in a browser, but when Chron calls it I get back an email from Cron Daemon that contains HTML that when extracted an placed in an .html file and displayed in a browser has the following message:
Form name can NOT be empty!
The URL used has the following format:
https://myserver.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_chronoforms5&chronoform=MyCF_Form&event=myEvent&tmpl=component&chrono=mySecretKey
The ChronTab entry looks like this:
wget -O - https://myserver.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_chronoforms5&chronoform=MyCfFormName&event=myEvent&tmpl=component&chrono=mySecretKey >/dev/null 2>&1
The rest of the ChronTab scheduling parameter is set to Hours equaling */12. Chron has been making the call properly as scheduled.
Why is his losing the Form name?
Do I need to URL Encode the url I am using?
Or is there a better way to have Chron call the Form Event?
I added a check to see if the CF was called from elsewhere and then instead of generating text, it uses the CF email action to send the admin an email instead. When I call this directly using a browser and a properly formatted URL it works fine.
However, I would like to call this CF event from Unix Chron. I have added an entry in ChronTab that makes the call. I use the same URL that I tested in a browser, but when Chron calls it I get back an email from Cron Daemon that contains HTML that when extracted an placed in an .html file and displayed in a browser has the following message:
Form name can NOT be empty!
The URL used has the following format:
https://myserver.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_chronoforms5&chronoform=MyCF_Form&event=myEvent&tmpl=component&chrono=mySecretKey
The ChronTab entry looks like this:
wget -O - https://myserver.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_chronoforms5&chronoform=MyCfFormName&event=myEvent&tmpl=component&chrono=mySecretKey >/dev/null 2>&1
The rest of the ChronTab scheduling parameter is set to Hours equaling */12. Chron has been making the call properly as scheduled.
Why is his losing the Form name?
Do I need to URL Encode the url I am using?
Or is there a better way to have Chron call the Form Event?
