vB AJAX Cron

vB AJAX Cron From vBModder.com

This is such a small but useful mod that I decided to give it away free. This mod will replace your sheduled task image code at the bottom of your pages and run your sheduled tasks via an AJAX call.

AJAX is asyncronous and offers true background running of sheduled tasks. This does not change anything with the actual tasks or the scripts that run them. It merely replaces the method that initiates the running of those scripts.

There are no template edits of any kind. Simply upload the files to your forumhome directory and import the product xml file.

This should work in any vb or custom script in any directory.

Full support will only be given at vbmodder.com

I will support it here as time permits.



Enjoy

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Do not use this with vb 3.6x! There is a difference in the cron table.
The 3.6x version can be found here

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New version 1.1.2

Added ajax_cron_start hook. Now if you should ever have a plugin that uses the cron_start hook simply change it to use the ajax_cron_start hook.

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New Version 1.1.3

Now it will just use cron_start hook if you have a plugin that uses it. Aparently vb doesn't actually care where the hook is located.

Live and learn.

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New Version 1.1.4

This will now degrade gracefully when browsers have javascript turned off. When a browser has javascript turned off the default vb method will be implemented to ensure the cron runs.

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