Using crontab to call wget every 5 minutes

Question

I am working on a project where the wget and crontab are used to run a process in the background. I have a php file named "Hello.php" that I want to run this every 5 minutes. I have found that if I want to have a cron job run every 5 minutes, I should use the following crontab entries :

*/5 * * * root wget ..... # Other processes run as such
* * * * * root wget https://hello.com/cron/advertise 

How can I link my "Hello.php" class with cron to run in every 5 minutes? I am using symfony2.

Answer 1

use the console component

make it run your hello.php script

call the command in your crontab

bash /your/dir/app/console yourcommand

or even simpler run php your/dir/hello.php